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THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 



THE TWO WORLDS 
OF ATTRACTION 



BY 



ANNE ABBOTT 




Oil* Christopher Publishing Hous« 
Boston, Massachusetts 



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Copyright iQ2i 
By Thk Christopher Publishing House 



A617083 



FOREWORD 

This book deals in a new and vital manner 
with the conditions of personal life after 
bodily death. The subject is treated with a 
dignity, a profound reverence and withal a 
deep understanding which place it in a class 
quite by itself. Specific answers are given 
to questions that have been a cause of doubt 
and concern to all real thinkers, and the laws 
governing the after life are shown to be as 
definite and as "natural" as the laws we find 
operating in the realm of the physical life. 

The entire subject of the continuity of life 
is treated with an impressiveness that car- 
ries with it deep conviction. Coming at this 
crisis in our national life, it could not have 
been more timely in its reassurances to 
man of the invincible power of courage, 
faith and absolute fidelity to the higher pur- 
poses. It is not too much to say, that "The 
Two Worlds of Attraction" will contribute 
greatly to a far more joyous conception of 
the land beyond the veil, than humanity, as 
a whole, has yet been able to accept. 

Of the approach to the transcription of 
the material the author says: 

"In November, 1919, I began receiving 
automatic writing from my mother whom I 
had never known, as she died when I was 
less than a year old. 



FOREWORD 

"This experience, which was a very beau- 
tiful one, prepared the way for the book, 
The Two Worlds of Attraction. I could not 
face the possibility of signing my own name 
to it when it was completed. Like count- 
less others who have been confronted with 
the same problem, I could not bear to give 
up whatever claim I might possess to intel- 
lectual respectability, so I planned to pub- 
lish the book under a fictitious name. 

"At the eleventh hour, I was asked by "A 
friend of the cause" to sign my own name 
to the book because of the connection of the 
name of Abbott with the world of literature, 
in the mind of the public, and I complied. 

"I lay no claim to the book in any way, 
save that for some reason which I do not un- 
derstand, it came through my hand. With 
the exception of one line, the few personal 
passages were left out, at my request, by 'A 
friend of the cause.' " 

Anne Abbott. 



"It is always well to remember, in aspir- 
ing to individual development to the high 
place of communication between the two 
worlds of attraction, that growth must be 
slow, else it is not truly growth. God gives 
the flowers of the field, the trees of the forest 
and his earthly children, all the time they 
need in which to grow. 

"Approach the gates of entrance slowly 
and serenely and all will be well. The stu- 
dent who dares not be true to the law of calm 
growth, would better wait patiently for the 
development of some tried and trusted 
friend, for soon there will be many of these 
in every community and the race is not al- 
ways to the swift but to those who conform 
to the law as God has made it." 

A Friend of the Cause 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

Sunday, December 21st, 1919. 
The mother speaking: 

"Dear Anne, You are to place yourself in 
readiness for the transcription of the book 
which is to follow, by allowing all of your 
faculties to be used by us for the time being, 
as effort along the line of any analytical pro- 
cess of interpretation will make it difficult 
for us to continue without breaking the 
thread, and that we do not wish to do, if it 
can be avoided. 

Remember, you are not writing indepen- 
dently now, you are being used as an instru- 
ment of transmission, and in so far as you 
realize this and act accordingly, you will 
be of help to us. 

Any active effort on the part of your mind 
makes just that much more for us to over- 
come, as we are using your brain as a sort 
of clearing house for the purpose of reach- 
ing many people to whom this functioning 
is an unheard of thing. 

There are countless - people who will 
be impressed not only with the method but 
with the ultimate results of the proceedings, 
provided the message comes through clearly 
and in a lucid way so that those whose minds 
have not yet turned in the direction of inves- 



10 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

tigation along these lines, will at least look 
upon the subject with more tolerance and 
begin to wonder if after all, there is not 
something more to the subject of psychical 
research than they have thought; if it is not 
worth investigating in spite of prevailing 
prejudice against it. 

You have only to trust us and to lend your 
hand. The rest is done on this side of the 
veil and may God strengthen and help you 
and see you safely through your appointed 
task. Goodbye, dear. 

Your loving mother, 

Emma." 

A Master speaking: 

"Dear child of earth, I am indeed glad 
to be able to use your hand in this great un- 
dertaking. You have been prepared for this 
work for a longer time than you realize and 
the hour has come when you are expected 
to prove the value of training and sugges- 
tion along these lines, together with the 
power of what is called here thought trans- 
ference, and we have every reason to believe 
that the result will be highly satisfactory. 

In the first place let me tell you this, that 
no one, however developed upon the plane of 
dense matter called earth, can fully realize 
the significance of the work we are attempt- 
ing to accomplish at this time. We are sur- 
rounded on all sides by men and women re- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 11 

leased upon this plane, especially men, who 
have been hastened into the life beyond your 
own before their time. 

This makes for confusion on both planes 
and the result is we are taking advantage 
of the appeal that is being made to us on this 
side of the veil to break through the barrier 
of prejudice and antagonism that exists 
upon the earth plane in regard to this sub- 
ject, and bring the two worlds into greater 
union while the opportunity is so very much 
at hand. 

With the passing of the aftermath of war, 
people return almost automatically to the 
pursuits and interests of material life in a 
way which makes them far more inaccessible 
from the spirit world, so-called. Now in deal- 
ing with this subject, it is well to bear in 
mind two things, first, that the matter of 
chief importance is the fact that inter- 
communication between the two worlds is 
possible and secondly that it is desirable. 

For countless ages man has considered his 
life upon earth to be a thing apart from 
what is termed, generally speaking, spiri- 
tual. Consequently, he has contended when 
dealing with this subject of death and 
of the world beyond the grave, that one 
world at a time was sufficient and that all 
people who were really well balanced and 
what is called sane, felt very much the same 
way, which is in truth a fact. The majority 
of thinking people have certainly had the 



12 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

same inclination to accept this point of view 
as the wisest and best for all mankind. 

Now as a matter of fact this has never 
been true, though in countless instances the 
investigation along lines of thought called 
psychic research to-day, has been fraught 
with misunderstanding and terror of many 
sorts, so that it is not strange that the aver- 
age mind has shrunk from the subject and 
felt the course of entire withdrawal from 
any further interest in the matter to be the 
best way to settle a most difficult problem, 
and one which wiser men had failed for 
centuries to solve. 

This being the case, it would be strange 
indeed if it did not take a very long lapse of 
time before there would be so much as a 
single ray pierce the darkness between the 
earth plane and those beyond it and true it 
is that those who have tried have attempted 
their investigation for the most part, in a 
manner ill-fitted to bring about results that 
could possibly appeal to a highly developed 
ego and naturally the whole subject has 
fallen into very bad repute indeed. 

Now then, these being the facts, the next 
step upon the road of exploration and dis- 
covery, was to make the attempt at least to 
find out what the cause of so-called pheno- 
mena really was, and thereby reduce the 
danger of investigation to the smallest de- 
gree possible. 

There is no hindrance to the develop- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 13 

ment of any movement or other organized 
plan of any kind in the world so great as fear. 
It is paralyzing in its effect upon the mind of 
man in a way that reduces his powers to a 
minimum of efficiency, and the consequence 
has been from the beginning that people have 
always felt they were dealing with a 
force of which they knew nothing, and the 
most prevalent idea in connection with it 
was the belief that in some way, all forms 
of physical manifestation called spiritistic, 
were the work of the devil and better left 
alone. 

This idea has been dominant in regard to 
the whole subject until within a compar- 
atively few years and the real reason for the 
change in public opinion has been man's 
inner longing for the truth of his own 
being. In some way or other he has known 
that he was destined to attain this knowledge 
if his search were deep enough and sincere 
in its purpose. 

This state of things has brought about 
what is called the open mind that is preva- 
lent upon earth to-day which signifies to us 
that the door between the worlds is about 
to be opened, and what has seemed in past 
ages to be wrapped in darkness and mys- 
tery is no longer so, but revealed as a glor- 
ious and wonderful evidence of the patience 
and the love of God, and of His desire to 
prepare His children a place of peace and 



14 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

of confidence in the plan of Creation while 
they are still wearing the garment of flesh. 

Do not try so hard to think when you lose 
the thread for a moment; wait patiently and 
the pencil will write again freely and ac- 
curately. 

To continue : We are naturally anxious to 
do our best to improve this opportunity oc- 
casioned by so great sacrifice of life upon 
the earth plane, and we hope to be able to 
interest countless readers in this most im- 
portant subject by putting before them the 
simple facts which relate to communication 
in a way that cannot help making a wide 
appeal and will eventually prove to millions 
of men and women that their so-called dead 
are not removed by transition but are far 
nearer to them than in earth life. That 
they may at will commune with them 
as upon earth only on an infinitely more com- 
prehensive and understanding basis, for the 
matter of thought transference as it operates 
between the two planes is far more highly 
developed on this plane than upon the earth 
plane, and consequently communication is 
easier and of a much higher nature, nec- 
essarily. 

True it is, that it will be a long time 
before a high degree of proficiency will be 
developed by those to whom this subject is 
wholly new and one which they accept 
grudgingly, if at all, and who enter into their 
attempts at proving the truth for themselves, 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION IS 

with unbelief and even scoffing in their 
hearts. 

But to those who enter into this in- 
vestigation in sincerity and in truth, and who 
believe all things possible to those who love 
God, to those the way will be shown and the 
reward at the end of their seeking after 
truth, will be great indeed. 

Little by little the actual knowledge that 
is bound to follow the many testimonies to 
the truth of intercommunication will have its 
effect upon all who dwell on earth, and the 
time will come when in every home there will 
be one who knows and appreciates the value 
of this vast truth, and it will be their task to 
convey to others in so far as that is possible, 
something of the changed glory of life after 
the point is reached when the individual soul 
recognizes the unity of all life and its own 
eternal unity with God. 

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, 
and soon there will be students of this sub- 
ject singing the song of truth over all the 
earth world. They will not be hampered 
by fear as their forebears have been, for all 
men are looking at this time as never before 
for some sign each day from heaven, and it 
is coming so simply and directly to man that 
only those who have kept the heart open and 
the mind unbiased upon these matters, will 
be able to recognize it without interpretation 
from some one who has passed over the same 
pathway before him. 



16 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

So the time is at hand when the attempt 
is to be made, to assure the race upon earth 
to-day that all life is a unified purpose, 
created in the beginning for the destiny of 
godhood achieved through overcoming and 
by the mastery of all elements which it is 
man's lot to meet upon the pathway of his 
development and evolution. One day not 
far distant, there will be some echo upon 
earth of the song from on high: Peace on 
earth, goodwill to men and the sword shall 
perish from the face of the earth. There 
shall be no more bloodshed nor any more 
war, for the redemption of man, through 
love in the great universal sense, will pene- 
trate the dark recesses of man's brain, and 
he will turn from sin and sorrow to the 
dawn of a new day. 

Then the intercommunication between 
the two worlds called heaven and earth 
will be an established fact and it will ex- 
cite no more wonder than communication 
between distant points upon the surface of 
the earth does at this time in the unfoldment 
of inventive genius, which has brought to 
the relief of man all of the so-called discov- 
eries which are only the revelation of truth 
to the mind of the man who stops to listen 
and who, having heard, carries out the pur- 
poses of the Father to further the welfare 
of His children in all worlds and in all gen- 
erations. 

Try to realize, all who read these words, 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 17 

that they are an attempt to transfer the 
thought force which is used upon a differ- 
ent plane in a wholly different way; that 
all effort to convey accurately the meaning 
of great truths in the speech of earth is in- 
adequate. An idea, however, that conveys 
to some extent, the importance of the sub- 
ject at this time is of great significance. 

As the revelations of the plan on this side 
for this work are made known, it will be- 
come more and more apparent what is being 
attempted and what is the best method of 
carrying out the purpose of the book. 

Now we will not tire our instrument longer 
to-day, for she has made sufficient effort for 
the first transcription. As time passes the 
words will flow more freely through her pen 
and it will not be long before the undertaking 
becomes a pleasure and not a task. I thank 
you. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



18 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

II 

Monday, December 22nd, 1919. 

"Dear child, I want to congratulate you 
upon the directness with which you conveyed 
the message yesterday, for it was very nearly 
accurate, and in every particular the thought 
was expressed without interference in any 
way by the processes of your own think- 
ing. 

This overcoming for the time being of 
any conscious mental action save that which 
is conducive to help the project in which we 
are both so interested to as high a form of 
expression as possible, is not a thing to be 
easily accomplished in a short space of time. 
To a person of your tendencies and develop- 
ment, it is peculiarly hard not to dissect from 
an analytical standpoint as you go along, and 
that is why the work is harder for you than 
it would be for a more submissive type of 
mind. 

However, in the end, this will all react 
in favor of the book, for the more slowly the 
investigator is content to make progress, 
naturally the more significant his entrance 
and his endeavors in this field of labor must 
be to others who are considering the ques- 
tion seriously and who have not up to this 
time been by any means convinced that 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 19 

people who are called rightfully, thinking 
people can really be interested in the subject 
of psychic research. 

If they are, however, and it is no longer 
considered a matter of disrepute, then he 
can make the plunge in goodly company 
he now begins to think, and in this frame of 
mind, reading a clear and lucid explanation 
of matters which have been entirely unex- 
plained and mysterious to him before, will 
have just that much more significance to 
him and to countless others who share with 
him the doubts and fears of all past genera- 
tions from which it is a struggle to be freed. 

However, to resume the subject matter of 
the book where we left it yesterday. 

There is in the mind of man to-day an in- 
creasing desire to know truth. We no long- 
er upon any plane say with Pilate : "What is 
truth ?" But we are trying to discover for 
ourselves whether truth is a purely relative 
matter varying in the mind of the individual, 
between different grades of honesty, of 
morality, of order in regard to personal and 
national affairs in proportion to his pre- 
conceived ideas upon such subjects, together 
with the influences of early environment and 
many other things, or whether after all 
there is an absolute standard which at some 
time in our development we are to know in 
full. 

Truth will not remain the partial unde- 
veloped vision which it now is to man- 



20 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

kind but will become a reality of increas- 
ing value in the most constructive sense, 
upon which man may build something defi- 
nite to which he may hold throughout the 
varying vicissitudes of life. 

Through all the changing years this will 
point ever to a definite purpose, a definite 
goal and a unity of forces, so-called physical 
and so-called spiritual. 

The progress which has led to the point 
of individual thinking along these lines 
has been slow indeed, but now it is 
world-wide, and the force with which it will 
bear on the race consciousness to the point 
of conviction in these matters, is swifter than 
can be estimated at this time; but results will 
prove the truth of predictions in so short a 
period that it is idle to waste time and energy 
in projecting thought of a conjectural nature 
into the future of this great plan. 

It says in the Good Book, "Be ye wise in 
your generation:" the wise in the present 
generation are those who are willing to re- 
ceive the light which is being diffused in the 
earth world to-day and which is priceless 
in its value and in its effect upon the race, 
can be compared to nothing more appro- 
priate than the dawn of an entirely new day. 

With the actual facts of communication 
between the two worlds understood and ac- 
cepted by this world as a great truth, advanc- 
ing civilization and progress centuries in 
evolution at a single bound, there will be a 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 21 

change in the present apathy towards mat- 
ters pertaining to the functioning upon other 
planes than this one, which will affect every 
human being still living on the plane of dense 
matter called earth. 

Here we come to the profound reason for 
the revelations which are being made in all 
quarters of the earth at this time pertaining 
to these things, for there must always be as 
nicely adjusted causes of all large move- 
ments in life upon all planes, as the results 
are great and that proportion is in exact 
measure according to unchanging law. 

But it is a reason almost too simple to be 
accepted by many without combat, because 
the average mind of man still looks for signs 
from heaven. Where there are no signs, he 
claims there are no evidences, simply be- 
cause he personally rejects any other type of 
what he himself calls proof and which mil- 
lions of others, thinking of such matters 
in much the same manner have also called 
proof. 

From the standpoint of sense alone there 
is no "proof," while man is in the body, but 
when man through his own seeking for truth 
and through his willingness to take the step 
that is necessary for the unfolding of his own 
inner vision — namely, to ask of his Creator, 
silently, humbly and with faith in his heart, 
if he seeks he shall find, and if he knocks the 
door shall indeed be opened unto him — to 
every soul that in truth turns to the godhood 



22 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

within himself for guidance, the way is 
shown. 

This is an underlying law of life. We do 
not create law, but we create reactionary- 
force upon our own lives and all they contact, 
by building up a defense against truth which 
in turn acts upon the worn and troubled 
spirit of doubting men and women, until they 
see that this is not the way to seek the 
spiritual kingdom. 

To the world of sense certain things 
and conditions are visible and provable, but 
to the infinite world of spirit, of which the 
world called the material world, is but one 
form of manifestation, there is a form of re- 
velation and of conviction which comes 
through the inner man, which is forever 
spiritual in actuality, and which persists 
through all the varying forms it has assumed 
and will yet assume to the point where it will 
know that individuality, the continuity of 
what is called identity does persist and ever 
will persist in constantly changing and evol- 
ving form. This is one of the great and 
beneficent laws of creation, of which the 
children of earth have been sadly and per- 
sistently ignorant up to the present day. 

Surely now, however, the clouds are dis- 
appearing and there is more and more light 
filtering through from the realm beyond the 
veil and at no distant day there will be sing- 
ing upon earth where there has been weep- 
ing. In every home there will be event- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 23 

ually a voice through the power of thought 
transference which is reaching such a high 
form of development in these days, and the 
voice will carry to the unseen world, as it has 
always done, but in turn it will speak to the 
sorrowing ones still in the earth world who 
have mourned without hope, words of cheer 
and consolation, and little by little conviction 
as to the truth of this great law will become 
an established thing. 

It will no longer be a matter of scorn 
and even degredation to claim that converse 
between the worlds of earth and so-called 
spirit is an established fact. Not only nat- 
ural and as simple as the use of the telephone 
and telegraph but far more so in fact, as it 
will cease to be as complicated and difficult a 
problem to many minds as the wireless pro- 
cess is to those to whom the whole subject 
of thought waves has previously been a 
closed book. 

The acceptance of the fact of intercommun- 
ication will establish upon earth a certainty 
of the purpose of life, and the worth-while 
part of each and every human being upon the 
path of creation in any given place and at 
any period of evolution, so that the old time 
standards which marked the belief in a short 
span of life, dating from birth to death in a 
material world, will vanish from the face of 
the earth, and a new way to peace and hap- 
piness and a new understanding of the first 
meaning of unity and brotherhood will be 



24 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

established never to wane again while the 
world called earth revolves in space. 

This will continue as long as the race con- 
sciousness calls it into action for the evolu- 
tion of souls needing the lessons only to be 
learned by the passage through dense mat- 
ter for the schooling impossible to gain in 
other ways. 

Do not confuse the term dense matter 
with the physical body alone or with the 
earth plane as it is called, for there are 
spheres and spheres of dense matter, more 
dense than earth, but by way of expressing 
the meaning of the term, earth world, it is 
so often referred to as the plane of dense 
matter that it sometimes leads to the con- 
clusion that this plane is exclusively one 
of dense matter, which it is not. 

The time will doubtless come when it will 
be possible to go into the subject of other 
planes of existence which have superceded 
this one, but that is not the object of this 
book. 

The object of this particular book is 
to reveal to men and women upon earth the 
fact of communication between the two 
worlds in its simplicity and its beauty; also 
to help them to realize the nearness of 
the two planes and their interpenetration 
and the needlessness of human woe from the 
standpoint of death chiefly and from contrib- 
utory causes as well. To those who really 
seek for light and truth upon this vital sub- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION . 25 

ject there is no better advice to give than the 
well-known passage so often quoted from 
the Bible, "Seek and ye shall find." 

The time is at hand and the way appears, 
and it will not be long before the fruitless 
search for so-called instruments through 
whom our loved ones come to us by special 
grace reserved only for the few, in an un- 
accountable way will be done away with for- 
ever, and we will seek and find our own 
directly, as the Father of men intended that 
we should. 

When that day comes, we will wonder 
that we ever lived in the old leaden world 
ingloriously and without hope, facing al- 
ways, and forever the door which shadows 
all life to the end, and which shuts silently 
and inexorably at the close of the journey. 

We will marvel at the new day and 
its glory and its possibilities and each new 
morning will be as a new life undertaken in a 
purpose for which the end is not only justi- 
fied but made wholly worthy in spite of its 
errors and its struggles. 

Little by little the soul of man, awakened 
to the realization of the eternal verities, and 
aware of his infinite unity with the plan of 
creation, will cease to magnify the import- 
ance of things pertaining to sense and an- 
swer the call from within to. fit himself 
for higher planes of activity, which reach 
out before him in endless glory. 

Accomplishment will become divine in its 



26 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

mission, and all men will be benefited by each 
and every life to which this knowledge comes 
while yet upon the plane of earth. 

This will finish the message for this morn- 
ing. I thank you, dear child of earth. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 27 



III 

Tuesday, December 23rd, 1919. 

The mother speaking: 

"Dear Anne, The conditions this morning 
are of the very best. Try not to think ob- 
jectively; we keep repeating this admonition, 
as it facilitates greatly the work we are un- 
dertaking if you comply with our instruc- 
tions in this regard as much as it is possible 
for you to do so. Be of good cheer, dear, all 
is well. Goodbye. 

Your loving mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear child, we come to you this morning 
with renewed conviction as to our ability to 
transcribe through the agency of your brain, 
which we are using as a reflector for that 
purpose, this message of such great joy and 
we ask you to accept the obligation in the 
light of high service. 

Do not think of the matter analytically. 
Just do your part without too much intro- 
spection in regard to it and all will be re- 
vealed to you in due time when you have 
grown in power and understanding, so that 
the knowledge will be welcome to you and 
easily assimilated, as it is not possible to be 
at present. When that time comes you will 



28 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

look back upon your present frame of mind 
as something far removed and difficult to 
comprehend, for the vision and unfoldment 
will be such that you will realize that all en- 
deavor in connection with the cultivation 
of the psychic powers within our souls, 
is meant to be used for the betterment 
of man's condition upon all planes and is 
a thing to be desired above all else. 

One day there will be thankfulness in 
your heart beyond your power to express 
that nothing stayed your hand and that no 
amount of doubt and misgiving prevented 
you from following the call of the spirit 
within yourself. 

Be not dismayed at the greatness of the 
undertaking. Remember you are but one 
component part and all the other parts of 
this great plan are working out on this side 
the end which has long been required of 
them and which has taken time untold to 
bring to the point of transmission. 

So bear in mind always the fact that we 
none of us carry responsibility alone; we 
are inter-related in all forms and expres- 
sions of life and no one bears all of the care 
and the anxiety as to the outcome of any 
movement, however great or small it may 
be, and to no one entity does all of the glory 
and joy of success belong. 

This in itself is an humbling and helpful 
thought, which it is well to bear in mind, 
and all the sensitive souls of earth that 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 29 

shrink instinctively from publicity of any 
kind do well to remember this; and it is also 
a help in the correct diagnosis as to the ex- 
tent to which the individual unit is respon- 
sible. 

Not that responsibility is not good for us 
all. It fits in each case the shoulders upon 
which it is placed, but there are those in 
every plane who take it with too great a 
sense of , distaste for the great debt which 
it entails, and in such instances a little 
enlightenment in regard to the subject is not 
out of place. 

To return to the subject matter of yes- 
terday. We are now at a place in the evolu- 
tion of man upon the earth plane where there 
is a step to be taken in regard to matters 
pertaining to the so-called spiritual kingdom. 

The people themselves, the masses which 
go to make up the bulk of humanity, are 
demanding the right to look into these ques- 
tions for themselves. 

They are no longer content with the min- 
istrations or with the doctrines which are 
given them from all sectarian pulpits under 
the sun, but are developing a remarkable 
amount of individual thinking destined to 
alarm the clergy and make them wonder as 
to the cause of the increase of unrest 
among the hitherto docile members of their 
flocks. In many instances the ministers 
themselves have been doing the heaviest 
thinking and in some cases have been obliged 



30 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to acknowledge that their tenets no longer 
give them satisfaction or real help from the 
standpoint of what they had always termed 
spiritual. 

The conditions arising to-day out of the 
stress and tumult of the world beset by war- 
time influences and the even more deadly 
ones which follow in the aftermath of war, 
are not met by the old-time creeds; and 
the clergymen acknowledge to them- 
selves, at least, that the old orthodox teach- 
ings, to be strictly honest, have never 
fully met the needs of the people or of 
the church. They would inevitably at some 
time and age, even without the hastening in- 
fluences of war, have needed modelling and 
reshaping, in order to be more nearly suited 
to the measure of the desires of the heart 
of man. 

It is also true, in some instances, that 
the ministry has been robbed of some 
of its most promising members because of 
this pressing sense of inadequacy which 
filled their souls with a sort of spiritual 
revolt and even made them feel at times 
like the veriest charlatans taking money or 
its equivalent under utterly false pretences 
and longing for a life work founded on more 
honest and more definite lines, where at 
least they would not forever be passing 
through a form of inner conflict, which made 
life a harrowing and surpassingly difficult 
thing to endure. 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 31 

This has of late been more often the true 
situation of many a clergyman than will 
ever be known, and some of them have 
sought in secret, help from the reading and 
the study of books coming under the head of 
psychical research in varied ways and bear- 
ing varied titles. 

Out of this unrest has come the movement 
which has swept over England, plunging her 
far into the field of research and placing her 
at the head of investigators, speaking from 
the standpoint of nations, and now America 
is aroused. 

None can withstay the power of the move- 
ment that will follow this turning towards 
spiritual law, which is already making great 
headway unknown to the man or woman 
who has not heretofore been deeply inter- 
ested in the subject and who has up to the 
present time looked upon all such matters 
either as needless, not to say useless, or per- 
haps even the work of evil spirits or of char- 
latans at best. 

This age has passed. It is a closed 
chapter and in the future people who 
have not truly the open mind upon this sub- 
ject as well as others in the nature of dis- 
covery and enlightenment, will be the ones 
who little by little will be looked upon with 
scorn, not unmixed with pity. Eventually it 
will be a matter of pride not only to the 
thinker but to the layman, to be able to speak 
intelligently upon this subject and to be able 



32 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to say "We do not have to seek outside our 
own home circle for a voice to convey the 
message to us from beyond the veil. ,, 

The power is at hand which makes inter- 
communication possible to the children of 
men who have faith in their own godhood to 
bring all things to pass, even to the breaking 
down of old prejudices which have hitherto 
prevented this simple and beautiful law from 
operating as easily and as naturally as we 
lie down to rest at night, assured of awaken- 
ing in the morning. As we leave the rising 
and the setting of the sun and the stars in 
their courses to the benign law controlling 
them, so we leave the working of this great 
law of the interrelation of the two worlds 
to the Giver of all gifts, and rest in the as- 
surance that all is well and that life endures 
in ever-increasing glory from everlasting to 
everlasting. 

Prejudice against the old methods will 
continue for many ages to come and right- 
fully so, but the new way will disperse the 
instinctive feeling of withdrawal in a most 
sweeping sense, and the detractors of all 
phases of so-called spiritism, as it has been 
comprehensively called, will be the first ones 
to embrace what they will call the direct 
route. 

Another point which will have bearing on 
the situation is this: there are countless 
people upon earth to-day who have counted 
and still do count their position in the given 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 33 

place where they live as the one thing most 
worth while preserving while they continue 
to dwell there, and there could hardly be a 
condition they would fear more acutely than 
to be robbed of the high esteem in which 
they are held in this community. With- 
out the feeling of so-called esteem on the 
part of their fellow-citizens, life would not 
be worth the struggle and the maintenance 
of a reputation of this kind is something 
which the average man or woman holds far 
more dear than they are aware of them- 
selves. 

It is in many respects a wise and goodly 
attitude of mind, bearing in its train a host 
of lesser virtues which would necessarily be 
diminished in their value were the main- 
spring of endeavor and of ambition removed 
and nothing supplied to take its place. 

Consequently it is a marvelously strong 
and self-reliant soul that has the courage of 
his own convictions sufficiently to heed the 
voice from within calling him to join the 
quest of truth individually, without sanction 
or permission from any source and to find 
out for himself what is being accomplished 
in the world of psychic investigation. 

He no longer contents himself with the 
worn platitudes, of which thousands upon 
thousands have exhausted the good, and 
who cry out for food that will keep their 
souls from death and calling find no answer- 
ing voice, until they end by going on in the 



34 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

footsteps of their forefathers, convinced 
that there can be no better way. 

However, now and then, there has been 
some courageous soul who has claimed the 
right to know and has sought and found, 
who has knocked and found that the door 
has indeed been opened; but like all discov- 
erers of laws simple and natural in their 
working and wholly unable to attach to 
them the least mystery or significance that 
would count from a purely materialistic 
standpoint they have for the most part kept 
these revelations quite to themselves. 

This has been necessary partly on account 
of the fear of ridicule and partly because of 
a very natural distaste to be confused in the 
minds of their friends and even their fam- 
ilies with the generally conceived idea of 
people who have ever at any time in the 
history of man, claimed to hold converse 
with those who have passed through the 
gates called death. 

In ages past this has meant persecution 
of the most iniquitous kind and in later days 
it has meant persecution from the stand- 
point of a certain unconcealed contempt on 
the part of even the most liberal minded of 
their associates. 

The price has been so high that few in- 
deed have attempted to do more than hold 
the truth close to their own hearts and try 
passionately to find an opening to pass on 
their own light to those in need of comfort 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 35 

and consolation through bereavement, but 
have for the most part failed utterly in their 
desire to reveal a tithe of what they pos- 
sessed for the relief of suffering and have 
been obliged to carry their golden secret 
alone and unshared to the end of the journey. 

This has been the sad condition of human 
consciousness for countless generations, and 
it would still continue to be so were it not 
for the fearful suffering and reaction of a 
world-wide war such as the one from which 
humanity is just emerging. The war offered 
the way to revelation and has proved the 
open doorway through which the light has 
entered, and whether it is possible to believe 
it or not at this time, the door will never be 
wholly closed again. 

There is too great a multitude aroused 
and calling through the open space way and 
too many of us on our side have heard and 
have answered, so that now it is largely a 
question of revealing to a greater number 
of the children of earth than are now awak- 
ened, the possibilities of a new heaven and 
a new earth, by means of literature which 
is reaching the earth plane in numerous 
quarters all over the world to-day and which 
is destined to stimulate individual thinking 
to a degree that will make restraint along 
these lines impossible and eventually unde- 
sirable. 

The most inhibited religion and the most 
fettered faiths must sooner or later respond 



36 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to a message of such great joy, and the abil- 
ity to prove individually in a most conclusive 
way the fact of the survival of life and of 
identity is going to be too great a factor in 
the evolution of mankind to be defeated in 
any way by any power on earth, for the 
cause is in itself the cause of life and of 
beneficent law. 

Upon all planes throughout the universe, 
man's acceptance of the fact of being in 
unity with the supreme force which brought 
all life to all spheres of consciousness both 
here and reaching to infinity far beyond 
the power of man's mind to penetrate, will 
depend no longer upon other wills than his 
own. 

He will claim his birthright and take his 
place in the ascending scale of evolution as 
he was meant to do from the beginning. 
Life will have lost its blind terror at the 
thought of death and parting, and he will 
know beyond all shadow of doubt the Fath- 
erhood of God and His infinite tenderness to 
the children of men. 

This day is at hand, and those who are 
wise in their generation are already listen- 
ing for the voice of guidance, and it is speak- 
ing, softly now, but with increasing power. 
Soon the world will hear and stop to listen, 
and never again on earth will there be strife 
and conflict in the same sense as heretofore. 

The new note of hope and the knowledge 
of permanent value which has never been 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 37 

properly accorded the earth span of life, 
will become the corner-stone of the temple 
which the builders rejected, and the tongues 
of men and of angels will be more nearly in 
unison than has ever been possible before. 

The time will come when mystery will 
no longer be mystery, and spirit will no 
longer be a term applied to one world more 
than another, for it will be known that all 
is spirit in truth, and that the world called 
the material world is as much a spiritual 
world as any other, only its development is 
at a different place in evolution from those 
beyond the veil. 

That is all this morning, dear child of 
earth. Do not be disturbed by the occa- 
sional halting of your hand. All will come 
right. I thank you. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



38 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

IV 
Wednesday, December 24th, 1919. 

"Dear child, we are endeavoring this 
morning to assist you in every way we can 
to make the transcription of the message a 
matter of ease and pleasure rather than one 
of strain, and as you seem more responsive 
and somewhat more relaxed than heretofore, 
I think we will not have difficulty in bring- 
ing this condition about. 

You are inclined to push your energies to 
a high point of expression in practically all 
things which you undertake, and it is not 
easy in a few weeks' time to become the inert 
receiver for another mentality. Still this 
is necessary in order to reflect the messages 
destined to be brought to human conscious- 
ness in this manner, and the more the instru- 
ment gives him or herself over to the pro- 
cess, the more surely and swiftly the end is 
attained. 

Now to the subject at hand. Upon leaving 
the subject matter yesterday at the given 
point where we were obliged to put away 
our task for the time being, it came to me 
that possibly the matter of danger connected 
with this subject of investigation which is a 
factor not to be ignored, was one which it 
was well to deal with at the outset. 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 39 

There might be in my opinion people who 
would naturally be inclined to read the book 
with interest and a certain amount of real- 
ization of its truth, who would nevertheless 
be held back from the real purpose of the 
book, namely, the stimulus of individual 
thinking and research along these lines, by 
the fear of untoward results in their own 
lives, should they become deeply immersed 
in the subject, and eventually take it up 
themselves with the idea of proving the 
statements herein presented. 

Back in the depths of human conscious- 
ness there is a lurking fear in connection 
with all subjects pertaining to the so-called 
occult, which it is all but impossible to still 
and which should rightfully be taken into 
consideration in the beginning. First of all, 
most people have at some time in their lives 
come in contact with some individual who 
has lost his sense of proportion and his so- 
called sanity by means of probing too deeply 
into the realm of the unknown. 

The result is in many cases lamentably sad 
and is a cause of suffering not only on the 
earth plane but to us beyond the veil, for we 
realize only too clearly how great an effect 
upon the progress of this research work such 
cases are bound to have, and how far-reach- 
ing they must necessarily be in their influ- 
ence upon all men. The effect in fact can 
hardly be over-rated in its bearing upon the 
progress, or rather the withholding of prog- 



40 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

ress upon your side and upon our side as 
well. 

It is possible, I believe, to give some light 
upon the subject of so-called obsession in 
this matter, and to make clear the causes 
and also point out the way to be absolutely 
sure of never running the risk of its entering 
into one's own search for truth along these 
lines. 

There is always a way in which this truth 
can be investigated without the slightest 
danger whatsoever of becoming upset as to 
values in connection with the two worlds 
we call the world of sense and the world of 
spirit. In so doing, the students who follow 
the teachings set before them as the way 
in which to unfold and make themselves 
ready for inspiration and direct communica- 
tion with a source higher than their own 
plane, not only help themselves but prove to 
the world that it can be done and that the 
result is worth the effort and preparation 
needful to effect the realization of spiritual 
intercourse. 

Also that the results are constructive in 
a measure which no one can deny once they 
have seen and observed carefully for them- 
selves just what the nature of this commun- 
ication really is: how beneficent the actual 
knowledge of the truth of spiritual commun- 
ication is to the instrument concerned and to 
all who touch his or her life when the direct 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 41 

method is used of reaching friends on the 
other side of the veil. 

In time there will come to the people living 
to-day upon the earth plane the conviction 
that it is worth while chartering a ship to 
make an unknown trip upon the unknown 
sea called the realm of psychic research, and 
they will also realize that there was never 
any great movement forward in the lives of 
either men or nations, that was not accom- 
panied by fully as much, if not more danger, 
than this particular field of endeavor. 

However, there is this to be said; man has 
rightfully held his supposed sanity to be his 
most highly-prized possession, and the high- 
er the development of that mentality, the 
more it is prized, quite naturally. Now then, 
this being the case, it is not at all strange 
that men hesitate to embark upon a project 
which, according to all their preconceived 
ideas, imperils that which they hold most 
dear. 

Consequently, thousands upon thousands 
of seekers turn back from this path, not 
without regret, not without great longing in 
the heart to pursue it to the point of some 
sort of conclusion, whatever it may be, but 
few dare continue in the pathway of investi- 
gation which to their certain knowledge has 
led able men and women before them to 
their doom. So, reluctantly but persist- 
ently the door is closed and those of us on 
the other side who have been looking and 



42 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

waiting, for what seems to us endless time, 
for the door between the worlds to be 
opened even a little, so as to allow us a 
small foothold, have had the repeated ex- 
perience of having the door closed over and 
over again by an instrument who would have 
attained for the cause, what millions of souls 
on earth to-day are really seeking; the 
knowledge of the continuity of life and of 
identity and of the intercommunication be- 
tween the two worlds of attraction. 

This, then, has been our experience and 
great indeed has been our disappointment 
when after years of endeavor in follow- 
ing out our method of teaching and thought 
transference from this side of life, we 
find at the last, our advocate readjusting 
himself to the old line of thought and the old 
habits of life and settling back to the place 
in his own consciousness where we found 
him at the beginning of our attempt to make 
of him a sensitive instrument attuned to the 
marvelous message to mankind from the 
spheres beyond his own. This condition we 
have tried again and yet again to attain and 
we are still trying. 

Now as to the causes of obsession, so- 
called. There are on this plane, as well as 
upon the earth plane and the planes still more 
dense than earth, forms of individualization 
which it is difficult to describe accurately in 
terms of earth language. At any rate they 
come under the same law of attraction which 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 43 

regulates the matter of supply and demand 
which is existent everywhere in all king- 
doms and upon all planes with equal force. 
This is an underlying law of life and it is 
very simple when once it is thoroughly un- 
derstood. 

In the first place, we do not need to attract 
to ourselves upon our pathway at any given 
point that which we do not desire. We 
constantly do attract the thing which we 
think we do not want, but we have at some 
time, in some way, called it into expression 
or it would not be there confronting us, to 
be either accepted or overcome. 

This is a difficult truth for many of earth's 
children to accept, but it is nevertheless a 
truth and one which has more bearing on 
the evolution of the race from the standpoint 
of what is called time to your sense, than can 
be possibly reckoned, especially by those to 
whom the acceptance of this law is impossi- 
ble and to whom the thought is at this time 
almost preposterous. 

There is, however, upon earth today, a 
large body of people called Scientists, which 
they are to an extent undreamed-of by people 
who look upon that religion as one which is 
so impossible to them that they think its 
followers not far from madness ; but mad or 
not to the skeptic's way of thinking, they 
are nearer the truth than the rest of the 
world is aware of. 

Some of their fundamental principles are 



44 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

the basic laws underlying all life and all 
progress, and there are few on earth to-day 
who enjoy so great a state of well-being, 
both in mind and body, to say nothing of 
spiritual welfare, as the body of the church 
of Christian Scientists. 

This illustration is used merely to give as 
clear and vivid a picture as possible of what 
it means for a body of people to build upon 
laws of such significant value as the law of 
attraction, which is so closely allied to the 
law of supply as to be one with it, and to 
make it apparent to the minds of those who 
look upon these matters and the so-called 
spiritual laws of being with unbelief that 
they are far from fallacious. That they are 
in fact extremely efficient and the way to 
really know for one's self the truth of laws 
believed heretofore to be wholly chimerical 
and the institution of man-made religions of 
one sort or another, is to try them out thor- 
oughly in one's own life and watch the re- 
sults carefully without reaching first in one's 
own mind any foregone conclusion. 

This is after all the only sane test of any 
law of life, and by careful observation one 
can make it for one's self in a comparatively 
short time, without traveling far into the 
field of investigation in any given line. 

So the law of attraction, which applies so 
accurately in the lives of countless multi- 
tudes of human beings and which is so ably 
exemplified by the religions of the present 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 45 

age, is equally powerful and operates in 
exactly the same degree upon the planes be- 
yond the earth plane as in your own sphere. 

Here as there thought force is the power 
and the only power necessary to make active, 
currents of mental energy which draw to 
the individual always that which he seeks 
by means of his own thought processes. 

It is indeed true that the forces on this 
side of the veil that are on a different plane 
of unfoldment, will no more be drawn into 
the thought current of purity and highmind- 
edness, than that truly evolved souls upon 
the earth plane will be found seeking expres- 
sion through dense physical pleasures. The 
operation of the same law attracts upon this 
side in a similar way characters of highly 
developed entities brought into relationship 
with a force akin to that by which they them- 
selves are actuated. 

The result is a blending of the same 
powers for constructive purposes. This 
can bring only good to those who enter the 
field of investigation with high aims and 
with mind and heart consecrated to the 
search after truth for truth's sake. 

The effect under these conditions can be 
only beneficent. More blessed indeed is he 
who tries to avail himself of this great and 
as yet unrealized wisdom than can be known 
upon the earth plane until it is more widely 
proved, but as time goes on and the moving 
finger writes, it will spread more rapidly 



46 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

than the rays of the sun at dawn, and the 
children of earth will wonder why they have 
not known this simple law of communica- 
tion since the beginning of the race. 

Surely there are instances when in all 
good faith apparently the seeker after truth 
has found himself engulfed by alien forces, 
and battle as he would has succumbed to 
them for the time being, but people who in 
utter sincerity of purpose enter into this un- 
dertaking with prayer upon their lips and 
sanctity in their hearts are few and far be- 
tween, who meet with this misfortune. In 
every instance of which I have known in 
my entire experience, they were people who 
found it difficult to keep the departments of 
life in their proper relation to each other 
under any circumstances, and who would 
have been very likely indeed to have met 
with a similar condition had they allowed 
their religious convictions to carry them far 
into any other given field of investigation. 

There are many such of whom little is said 
in other lines of sectarian endeavor and it is 
probable that were it possible to estimate 
the number of those who lose their sense of 
proportion upon any subject whatsoever, es- 
pecially those pertaining to religion, it is 
quite likely that they would not vary much 
in their several instances, nor would they 
vary much in the form of their illusion. 

Consequently, though there is always as 
said before, an element of danger in all great 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 47 

movements, there is in this one of such great 
importance to the welfare of the earth 
world, a minimum of that element and a 
maximum of intelligent results. These go 
far towards reconciling those who are turn- 
ing their attention along this line of thought, 
to the plan laid out for followers of this 
truth in a way that cannot fail to convince 
not only themselves but their immediate 
world of contact of the actuality of spiritual 
communication with their loved ones beyond 
the veil. 

Little by little the realization of the inter- 
penetration of all worlds will become an 
established fact, and when the knowledge is 
universal that all denizens of higher worlds 
than our own can avail themselves at any 
time of the privilege they have of coming 
into the vibrations of more dense matter 
than the plane upon which they dwell them- 
selves, those of us who still dwell upon the 
earth plane to whom this great truth has 
been revealed will hesitate to organize our 
lives and to carry them out upon a sense 
basis, such as has been prevalent upon earth 
to so marked a degree that it took a world 
war to awaken the children of earth to a 
higher standard of living. 

There will come with this knowledge a 
deep sense of the need of making this little 
span of life a beautiful and an ennobling 
thing rather than a trivial and transitory 
one, and the viewpoint of the world will be 



48 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

changed so much from the old world one of 
days gone by, that it will be indeed a new 
world and there will be a new conception of 
heaven. 

The tongues of all nations and of all 
peoples will be more nearly one universal 
language, and the kingdom of earth will be 
changed to a garden of beauty resembling 
the world beyond the veil more nearly with 
each successive generation. 

The people of earth in centuries to come 
will look back upon the days when life was 
not understood upon this plane to be one 
continuous unity in harmony with all other 
life upon all other planes, with incredulity 
and will marvel that people could have lived 
and died without hope and without the real- 
ization of intercourse between the two 
planes, as it will then be known. Sadness 
and weeping will gradually cease from being 
a factor of life as they are to-day, and a great 
song will be sung in the spheres beyond the 
ken of man, at the entrance of humanity in- 
to its heritage of glory and of beauty, and 
the knowledge of its kinship with all life 
throughout eternity. 

This will end our message for this morn- 
ing. Each day finds us a little farther ad- 
vanced with our task, and as time goes on 
the work will be facilitated as the timidity 
of our instrument is superceded by greater 
strength and conviction. Some day the 
pencil will not halt, and the message will be 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 49 

unimpeded from the beginning to the end. 
Until that time we must all have patience. 
I thank you, dear instrument. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



SO THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 



V 

Thursday, December 25th, 1919. 
Christmas Day. 

The mother speaking: 

"Dear Anne, make yourself ready for the 
Master's words of wisdom. Merry Christ- 
mas, dearest, and many, many of them. 
Your mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear child, attempt this morning to let 
the flow of words come through your hand 
as much as possible as if you were an instru- 
ment for the transmission of the telegraphic 
code, which, as you know, has nothing what- 
ever to do with the hand which transmits it, 
but which renders transmission possible. 
The more easily you respond to this 
purpose, which is that of the telegrapher in 
every way, the more readily we will be able 
to accomplish our task and resume our work 
upon other planes. 

We have both much important work to do 
in connection with this matter, which per- 
tains to other things than the writing of the 
book alone. In the first place, there is pre- 
paratory work to be done by you before the 
right time will have arrived for the publica- 
tion of the book. Like all other products in- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 51 

tended to further man's progress, it must be 
carefully considered what means of presen- 
tation will be the best fitted to make its in- 
fluence far-reaching. 

The publishers must be thoroughly well 
grounded in their own hold upon the public 
mind, so that when people upon reading the 
book take particular note of the publishing 
firm that produced it, they will be satisfied 
that it comes from an authorized house and 
one about which there can be no question as 
to character, standing and integrity in every 
way. This question is one of vital import- 
ance, and one which will have to be carefully 
considered when the time comes to take the 
steps preliminary to publication. 

To resume the subject matter of the book. 
Yesterday upon leaving the matter of dan- 
ger in connection with all great onward 
movements tending to further the evolution 
of race consciousness, it came to me that it 
would perhaps be well to speak of the world- 
wide effect of demoralization which has led 
to the unscrupulous methods adopted by 
heretofore supposedly honest and well-mean- 
ing citizens in an effort to accumulate, while 
there was yet time, a hoard of so-called 
wealth upon the earth plane, to ensure them 
in future against possible want or need of 
any kind in a material sense. 

This lust for gold is so widespread and 
so pernicious in its effects upon the race that 
it seems wise to speak of some of the direct 



52 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

results that are bound to follow in its train. 

This is indeed a reaction and a back- 
ward movement to be feared, and in this 
case the element of fear is not misplaced. 
If full realization could be awakened in 
the minds of the people of earth in suf- 
ficient numbers to combat it successfully, 
there would be an arresting of destruc- 
tive forces at this time which would go 
far towards redeeming the world from the 
old-time pillage and plunder which were 
wont to follow the condition of war in past 
ages, but which in the present stage of 
man's evolution take the form of what is 
called profiteering upon earth to-day. 

It is in a word plunder or even the spoils 
of war would perhaps be a still more accu- 
rate term, for the man who profits from the 
necessity of his neighbor and who is willing 
and glad to take advantage of poverty and 
want to the extent of making himself rich 
thereby, does not differ in actuality, from 
the man who, in days gone by, sometimes 
called the Dark Ages, took it upon himself to 
appropriate whatever was left unguarded in 
the aftermath of war. 

He used force or any other means at his 
command, feeling it his right beyond ques- 
tion to accept the boon of unearned riches 
with the same willingness that he went to 
war to defend his country and his hearth. In 
those days, war was not supposed to be any- 
thing more than a question of supremacy 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION S3 

through the force of arms. Might was right, 
and whoever failed to claim the spoils of ter- 
ror and of bloodshed would have been con- 
sidered weak and in every way unfitted for 
actual combat upon the glorious field of bat- 
tle. 

So in these days of so-called advanced civ- 
ilization there is a vast army of profiteers 
who correspond in kind with the vulture-like 
army in days gone by, which followed in the 
wake of war, sweeping all before it, and 
sparing none who could contribute to its 
own personal gains in any way, and the ef- 
fect is so colossal upon the advance of hu- 
man achievement that words in terms of 
earth language, are inadequate to express 
it. 

It violates the first law of progress at the 
outset. It is the exact opposite of the law 
of cooperation, and incites in the heart of 
man a sense of separation from his fellows 
which is bound to cultivate within himself 
something very similar to the instinct within 
the lower animals which prompts them to 
consider all other animals their natural foes, 
which they must either conquer or be con- 
quered by. 

Consequently the result is, that man under 
these conditions considers all men his natu- 
ral enemies and resorts to the means used by 
the lesser kingdoms of life, or in other words, 
processes of protection and 1 of aggrandize- 
ment, which stand in the way of growth both 



54 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

of the individual and of the race to a degree 
that is incalculable. 

Hence the result is chaos on every hand; 
no cooperative spirit, which is the only pos- 
sible remedy for world strife, can possibly 
be achieved while men combat each other 
and are inimical to all other interests save 
their own. Consequently there must be es- 
tablished upon earth some sort of concep- 
tion of the inter-relations of human interests 
before a plan, embracing the all important 
law of human advancement, can be made ap- 
parent to the children of men and change 
their present unintelligent attitude towards 
their fellow beings into one of fellowship 
and cooperative action. 

This attitude alone will act as a corner- 
stone upon which can be erected block by 
block, a new understanding of the meaning 
of life and of all processes with which the 
race of men upon earth today is concerned. 

When this new standard, which can come 
only out of the true conception of man's re- 
lation to man and thereby to God, is estab- 
lished to ever so small a degree upon earth, 
it will be bound to increase in a way that is 
inconceivable at this place of development 
upon the path of human progress, but true 
it is, and time will prove the truth of this 
statement as it proves all others. 

There is nothing that can prevent the es- 
tablishment upon earth of a new manner of 
life and a new code of conduct, when once it 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 55 

is known and thoroughly understood that all 
life is inter-related so closely that no part 
can be in any wise affected without affect- 
ing the whole. 

This law applies to all conditions of 
life, both upon the earth plane and upon all 
other planes, and when the day comes that 
men know that they cannot injure the least 
member of the body of consciousness with- 
out injuring themselves they will waken 
fully to the conviction that the age of force 
from the material standpoint is past for 
ever. 

The knowledge that it does not avail is 
penetrating slowly but surely the conscious- 
ness of all men and all nations, and every- 
where the question is being asked openly or 
in secret, "What is spirit?" "What is this 
unseen force that rules the world, that keeps 
the stars in their courses and the sun in its 
orbit, and the minor laws in action, in a way 
that the hand of man can never stay?" 
Which is never beheld, save as a result bear- 
ing significant testimony in its unfailing 
support of the righteous ending of all human 
conflict in events of great moment, such as 
wars and revolutions, and working with 
corresponding power in the every-day af- 
fairs of men and women if they think deeply 
enough about such matters to recognize the 
underlying laws which act always through- 
out the progress of human affairs. 

And even though the race is un- 



56 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

conscious of the processes by which it is 
moved in its evolution, it always makes 
greater headway when obedient to the 
deeper laws which underlie all life, and which 
direct man towards his own greatest good, 
if he will but listen to the guidance of his 
own inner soul through which they work. 

Who can deny these promptings? There 
is no human being at any state of unfold- 
ment whatsoever, who can truthfully say 
that the voice of the spirit does not speak to 
him in secret. The children of men are apt 
to differ widely in their definition of what is 
meant by the term spirit, as it is used on 
earth, but in effect they mean much the same 
thing, whatever the method of definition 
may be. 

As time goes on, it will not be an unusual 
thing to find that those who have been 
wont to express a certain amount of in- 
difference at least upon all subjects called 
spiritual, will come to recognize the fact that 
there is no differentiation in the term, that 
all is spirit, varying not at all in its nature 
or in its power; varying infinitely, however, 
in its manifestation and bearing no resem- 
blance to a lighted lamp to which it has ever 
been likened set high upon a rock, guiding 
the sailors upon the tempestuous seas of 
earth to safe anchorage in some secluded 
bay. 

This beacon light is something from which 
men have turned in much the same way as 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 57 

from the lighthouse reefs since time immem- 
orial. Nothing is farther from a true illus- 
tration of spirit than the similarity, supposed 
to exist between it and a lighted lamp, send- 
ing out a few flickering rays upon a dark and 
uncertain world, for the true meaning of the 
term spirit is such that the human race at 
its present point of evolution cannot accept 
it in its fullness. 

They only see in part and their acceptance 
of light is only in part, but they are awaken- 
ing to the truth of being and to the truth 
of spiritual forces underlying all life as never 
before, and the day is at hand when the 
terms spiritual and material will not be dis- 
tinct and separated as they are now, but it 
will be recognized and accepted as a fact, 
that all is spirit. That there is nothing else 
and that no amount of reasoning or so-called 
scientific research can determine action or 
movement or vitality of any kind in any way 
which has not its origin in the spiritual cause 
of creation, which time alone can prove to 
have been benign from the beginning. 

Conflict, however, is a law ultimately ben- 
eficent without which there could be no such 
thing as creative effort on the part of the in- 
dividual ; which means that without a strug- 
gle for supremacy within the heart of man 
for the survival of constructive forces over 
the destructive forces also working in their 
pwn way in order to produce conflict, there 
could have been no creative energy possible 



58 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

£ to man. Lacking this there would have been 
po progress, no unfoldment, only a quiescent 
state of being and of consciousness which it 
is apparent to all thinking men would have 
been unbearable in its monotony and im- 
possible to reconcile with a plan of evolution 
demonstrated in every way and in all king- 
doms to be one of activity, of progress, and 
of forward movement, which could not have 
been co-existent with inertia. 

Here we come to the point so often dis- 
cussed in the pulpit and by individuals as to 
the question of how far free will is an asset 
of development in the life of human beings, 
and how far a detriment, though it is com- 
paratively seldom that it is discussed by in- 
telligent people from the negative side of 
the question. 

It seems as if it were quite apparent that 
without free will there could have been no 
conflict and without conflict no progress, 
and so forth and so on indefinitely, but 
right here it might be wise to say a 
word as to the question of time as con- 
ceived by human beings, in its bearing upon 
the matter of free will; also upon the work- 
ing out of the great problems of life upon all 
planes, and its relation to the question of 
eternal progress, as well as the progress 
which it is possible to make in the passage 
of a single span of life upon the plane of 
earth. 

Time is not an asset in the plan of 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 59 

evolution, it is not a consideration. This one 
learns in passing to a consciousness only 
slightly beyond that of earth. As the indi- 
vidual emerges from one plane of unfold- 
ment to another higher still, he realizes that 
he is privileged to take the eternal cycle of 
time so-called, if he chooses, in which to 
work out his own individual problem in his 
own individual way. His personal problem 
is his own, and none may solve it for him. 

He may take aeons of time, if he likes, or 
one short span of life in the earth world 
as well as in other worlds, to accomplish the 
same given task, but the thing which is in- 
evitable and which must be seriously con- 
sidered, is the fact that the task must be 
accomplished, whatever it may be. If man 
chooses the longer route of suffering and 
so-called sin, and his journey is lengthened, 
and he goes over a similar pathway beset 
with thorns over which he- walks with bleed- 
ing feet, unlearning and still unlearning, that 
is his course, which he himself has chosen, 
and none may change it, none. 

Not even the power of God can alter these 
immutable laws, for law is changeless and 
established in the heavens. As above so 
below; it must ever be as the individual 
orders his own plan of unfoldment, be it 
long or short, and the most that any one 
given soul can do towards helping, or as he 
may think, hastening the evolution of an- 
other human soul, is to pass to him his own 



60 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

light when the one with less light finds his 
night no longer bearable. 

When the dawning soul of awakening in- 
telligence seeks for something which he him- 
self has not yet attained, he finds by a law at 
the heart of life that his need is unfailingly 
met in some way unknown to the working 
of man's mind, but he must reach toward the 
light himself, none other may do this for 
him. 

Here we come to the sad spectacle which 
is witnessed over and over again upon the 
plane of earth, of one enlightened soul at- 
tempting fruitlessly and recurringly, with 
unending zeal, to live or to help live the life 
of another, when there is no such thing pos- 
3ible, here or elsewhere, and the end is in- 
evitable from the beginning. 

Sad indeed are the results from too great 
a love upon the plane of dense matter called 
earth, with its laws of life and relationship, 
so apparently a transitory thing. The very 
fact of the brevity of life here and the utter 
hopelessness of attaining a higher degree of 
understanding and of ability to cope with 
the desires of the flesh are a cause of con- 
fusion. 

Many in their turning towards spiritual 
teaching, which will give true sustenance 
are disheartened beyond hope because of 
their failure to find in any church or in any 
creed assurance which is really convinc- 
ing as to the continuity of life and of iden- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 61 

tity, which alone can make the struggle 
worth while, and give incentive enough to 
life to make the never-ceasing sacrifices of 
human existence, possible to endure. 

This will be all for this morning. The 
holy Christmas Day dawns clear and fair 
upon earth, and the promise of a new dawn 
spreads over the world like a mantle of 
light, and surely it will penetrate to the dark- 
est corners of earth, until all life upon the 
earth plane becomes radiated with the 
knowedge of the love of God and His won- 
derful tenderness to the children of men. I 
thank you, dear instrument. 

A Friend of the Cause " 



62 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 



VI 

Friday, December 26, 1919. 

The Mother speaking: 

"Anne dear, remember you are in God's 
keeping and you are doing His work in the 
highest way you know. No harm can come 
to you, because you are following the inner 
law of your being. Let not your heart be 
troubled; follow in the way appointed for 
you by yourself, and all will be well, and 
great good will come to you and to your 
world in all ways. Goodbye, dear. Try and 
still your own thoughts as fully as possible, 
and become a mirror for the time being for 
the reflection of thoughts beyond your own 
plane of life. 

Lovingly, 

Mother Emma." 

"Dear child of earth, you are surely tried 
by fire in this purpose of such great im- 
portance upon earth at this time, in the evo- 
lution of man's consciousness. Few indeed 
upon earth to-day are able to stand firm in 
their own convictions of the truth of being 
and remain unmoved by outer conditions, 
which react always with more or less tur- 
moil and conflict upon the minds of all in- 
struments awaiting further knowledge and 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 63 

instruction along the line of this develop- 
ment, for the transmission of messages from 
the world beyond the veil. 

This is hard beyond conception to the 
soul that has not been led to the point 
of decision in accordance with this higher 
inner law, up to the time when the 
most supreme test confronts him: namely, 
that of following in the old approved way 
of his fathers or fearlessly stepping out 
into the great field of research, hereto- 
fore unexplored save in the few cases of 
the seeker after truth, who could not be 
inhibited or withheld by prejudice or fear of 
any kind, and who taking a stand resolutely 
and positively against all interference on the 
part of any power whatever outside himself, 
has claimed once and for all, his right to 
know truth beyond all question. 

He has claimed the right to know whether 
the inner voice of guidance in the heart of 
man leads him truly towards the fountain- 
head of all life, all love and all truth, or 
whether, as in the sad instance of the seeker 
for truth in this field who finding himself 
overcome by influences which he has in some 
way, though quite unconsciously, allowed to 
enter, is deterred from the attainment of 
his goal and enmeshed in the confusing 
forces of destruction and deceptive purposes, 
that he did not believe existed upon the 
earth plane or upon any other plane which 



64 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

he himself could contact, because of the pur- 
ity of his purpose. 

Purity of purpose has much to do with 
the realization of high processes of devel- 
opment in this work, but it is not all. It is 
also necessary that the instrument be suf- 
ficiently strong and well balanced mentally, 
so that he is fully capable of keeping the 
departments of life in their right relation to 
each other and under no condition to allow 
the matter of spiritistic investigation to be- 
come an absorbing thing to the exclusion of. 
other purposes and interests, which go to 
make up a rounded and well balanced life 
upon the earth plane. 

Those who aspire to become instruments 
of communication between the earth world 
and the one beyond it, do well to remember 
that they are less than useless to the cause 
if they are unable to preserve this equili- 
brium. 

Given the aforementioned balance of 
power in the individual, there is no more 
danger of being overcome or obsessed, to 
use the best-known definition of this phase 
of confusion, than in any other intensely in- 
teresting and absorbing subject in any field 
of investigation or endeavor anywhere upon 
any plane. But the fact of communica- 
tion between the so-called "dead" and 
,the living, having always been regarded 
as a matter of doubtful respectability if not 
of danger, the consequence is that people 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 65 

very generally hold to this thought them- 
selves, and hold it powerfully over any as- 
pirant in this field of development with the 
result that they have just that much more 
to combat. 

In every case, high purpose is the greatest 
protection; in the second place, mental 
health is required, and in the third place you 
yourself have among the friends and loved 
ones who form a group of workers on this 
side particularly interested in seeing you 
progress to the point of being an expert re- 
ceiver of messages from higher worlds, en- 
tities of a degree of attainment and of char- 
acter that it would be difficult to describe ac- 
curately in terms of earth language. Suffice 
it to say that it is the privilege of few to 
be so surrounded and protected, even though 
from the previously explained standpoint of 
protection there is no need whatever. Now 
to return to the book. 

The question which we were discussing 
yesterday at the end of the chapter was one 
pertaining to the continuity of life and of 
identity, as affecting the purpose of earth 
life to an extent which it is impossible to 
gauge. 

If it were possible for the average per- 
son, we will say, to start upon his earthly 
career with a well-defined idea as to its 
permanent usefulness in his own unfold- 
ment and his realization of truth, which 
was destined to enlarge his productiveness 



66 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

and his value in all ways, both as a denizen 
of the earth world and of all succeeding 
worlds which he would at some time inhabit, 
is it not reasonable to suppose that all cit- 
izenship upon the earth plane would be 
greatly increased in its capacity for high en- 
deavor and accomplishment, while its at- 
tainment was possible by means of the dense 
physical instrument which we call the ma- 
terial body? 

Does it not follow that man would pur- 
sue less purely worldly purposes and aims 
had he from the beginning, a definite goal 
which led him to his own certain knowl- 
edge to a plane of activity growing di- 
rectly out of his endeavors in the present 
field of labor, wherever and whatever that 
might be? 

Does it not seem wholly rational to ac- 
cept the truth of this statement that 
while in the dense physical body there 
would be an increased energy in the daily 
task which would raise the percentage of 
efficiency from the present low rate to a 
much higher one, more in keeping with the 
larger prospect of final achievement, if only 
for the definite and established fact in the 
minds of men that the earth life was not 
a mere fragment of accidental circumstances 
but part of a perfected plan? A plan as yet 
not revealed, to be sure, in its ultimate pur- 
pose but nevertheless proving the outcome 
of struggle and of work well done upon all 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 67 

planes of existence, to mean an exact ratio 
of return for sincerity of effort and honest 
attainment. 

It seems as if it would not be difficult for 
the dwellers of earth to realize that much 
of the wasted time and energy, which is a 
matter of great regret to those who are re- 
leased upon a higher plane of activity and 
who understand the value of the short span 
of time given to mortals upon this plane, 
could be averted, if it were possible to know 
while still in the body, the fact of connec- 
tion between all life that has preceded the 
earth life and all that is to follow. 

It would be then impossible for any man to 
regard himself from the accidental view- 
point. He would be obliged to relate people 
and conditions in some way, even if against 
his will, and he would in all probability give 
the matter the attention which is due the 
question of the survival of individual entity, 
as he has not done during the ages when man 
has feared and deprecated every search of 
any kind that has previously been made into 
the truth and value of this all-important 
subject. 

First of all, it would necessitate individ- 
ual thinking, something which is as des- 
tined to follow the awakening consciousness 
of man as that night follows day, and the 
result of individual thinking along these 
lines, once roused and in action, is impossible 
to estimate in its effect upon the present 



68 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

code of modern living and its extreme frailty, 
when it comes to the matter of facing the 
eternal verities in any one single aspect. 

The average man to-day does not wish to 
become aware of another world than the 
world of flesh and sense. It is enough; in a 
certain way it gives him a feeling of satis- 
faction to deal with one world at a time, as 
the saying goes, yet knowing all the time 
that really he is not satisfied; that there is 
not realization here of any kind whatever 
which remains in an exalted sense beyond 
the fleeting moment of happiness, which it 
is given to all mortals to know at some point 
of contact in earth life as a foretaste of 
heaven. 

Take life as a whole, however, from 
the cradle to the grave, man as man does 
not, save in rare individual instances care to 
concern himself with any other world than 
the one in which he is functioning at the 
present moment. 

Many reason somewhat in the following 
manner: 'What difference does it really 
make? I shall know some time as we all 
will. In the meantime it is a little more 
pleasant and secure to think that if after all 
there is no such thing as the continuity of 
the individual, and no one has proven that 
there is so far, then I will have drained the 
cup of pleasure upon earth to its dregs. 
I will not have missed in the physical life 
the enjoyment of the senses, which I might 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 69 

have found less satisfying had my conscience 
been more active and troublesome than it is 
with my present code of living as a guide 
in the ordering of daily life from a less exact- 
ing plan of conduct/ 

Truly many men on earth to-day come 
under this head, who accomplish much that 
is worth while and who put tremendous 
energy and active purpose into all their pur- 
suits in the phases of life through which they 
pass. 

They would be shocked indeed were 
they to realize that this very attitude of 
mind, accepted by such countless numbers 
of citizens of good standing all over the 
world, was the very thing which bound them 
to the processes of physical life recurringly 
and unendingly, until the soul in turmoil 
and tempest turns from the various vicissi- 
tudes occasioned by loss and grief upon the 
earth plane to the inner spirit of guidance, 
to be found within each human heart, and 
asks humbly and in utter sincerity for guid- 
ance into the light of higher understanding. 

Then only will the answer come showing 
the path to peace and happiness to have been 
always at his command, but revealing also 
the fact that no truth is revealed to man 
save by the processes of his own seeking. 
When the first revelation of this law is made 
known to man, he realizes that the rest lies 
with himself, that he is his own arbiter as 



70 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to the course forever after that he shall 
pursue. 

He also awakens to the inevitableness 
of ultimate choice, realizing once and for 
all that the destiny of the children of 
earth and all other worlds is an important 
one, that nothing can stay this purpose 
and that all conform in the passing of time 
to the laws of growth and unfoldment. He 
also knows that the sooner rnan seeks the 
spiritual kingdom, the less his period of 
travail upon earth, and the more swift his 
release upon planes of greater attainment 
and activity, than the one he knows as the 
plane of earth. 

When this knowledge is disseminated 
among men, and the children of earth little 
by little take up their definite tasks with 
the sense of having a lesson of paramount 
importance embracing many phases of un- 
foldment by means of which they are carry- 
ing out their part of the whole purpose of 
creation, it is reasonable to believe that there 
will be upon the earth plane an increase 
in the quality of thinking about the so-called 
spiritual laws, which will result in a tre- 
mendously intensified power of accomplish- 
ment and a great release from the hamper- 
ing fetters of prejudice in connection with 
the whole subject of psychic investigation. 

First of all, it would soon be known how 
simple and natural a function the law of 
communication between the two worlds 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 71 

really was, and instead of regarding the 
whole question as one fraught with terror 
and with mystery because of its being a 
matter pertaining to the invisible world, the 
children of earth would marvel at its sim- 
plicity and also that they could have lived 
so long and not known this truth of life when 
it was so possible to be known and had been 
from the beginning. 

Suppose, for a moment, by way of illus- 
tration, that there was in every home or 
virtually so an instrument who was willing 
for the sake of all to dedicate himself 
to the purpose of this investigation, tak- 
ing the direct method of proving to his 
own entire satisfaction whether the mat- 
ter of communication between the plane 
of earth and the one beyond the veil was a 
fallacious theory or indeed a probable truth ; 
that he should consecrate himself to this 
purpose in the highest sense of which he 
was capable. The condition is also implied 
£hat the aspirant must possess high aims and 
pure processes of thought as a first require- 
ment; added to that a well-balanced mind 
and the capacity to keep the departments of 
life well related, so that none infringe upon 
another, thereby ensuring in the beginning a 
groundwork of substantial value upon which 
the structure of transmission could be suc- 
cessfully built and we could then proceed to 
the point where the applicant for this high 



72 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

stewardship would be able to make the test 
of truth for himself. 

Above all, the instrument must make him- 
self free from worldly confusion and inter- 
fering interests for the time being and 
humbly and quietly prepare his own mind 
for the reception of thought from a plane of 
life he believes to be existent, and higher than 
his own. The next thing is to realize that 
all things are possible to those who love God 
(Good) and that the revelation of so great 
importance which his certain knowledge of 
the intercourse between the two worlds 
would be to him, is no greater than revela- 
tions that have been made before in all ages, 
but which have fallen upon stony ground 
and have failed to bring forth fruit. 

That the revelations have nevertheless 
come since the beginning of man's passage 
through matter in individualized form is a 
point it is well for the instrument to bear in 
mind, for the more he realizes that he is 
merely a transmitter of truth that is ageless 
and changeless, the more apt he will be to 
become impersonal in his own mental atti- 
tude, and the higher the form of communi- 
cation he will be able to receive. 

These conditions which have to do with 
the carrying out of the actual transmission 
of communications are of importance in this 
order; first, sincerity of purpose; secondly, 
protection from even the thought of alien in- 
fluences, so-called, by the quality of one's 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 73 

desires and the wish to help others besides 
one's self to the conviction of immortality, 
and thirdly, freedom from the curiously ex- 
perimental attitude of mind. 

This attitude of mind is in itself a deter- 
rent influence, and usually does not proceed 
beyond a first faint effort which lasts only 
long enough to tire the aspirant and call 
forth antagonism and criticism of the sub- 
ject in all its phases, in a way that is bound 
to injure the cause so dear to mankind and 
to those who have passed beyond the veil, 
and reacts against all progress in this direc- 
tion to a greater degree than can be calcu- 
lated. 

Let no man approach the sacred place of 
instrumentality, which must exist to make 
communication possible, save with sincerity 
and high purpose in his heart, as he will 
better serve the purposes of creation and 
of evolution to remain in the old ways of 
thinking and do less harm to the cause if 
he keeps open-minded upon the subject and 
willing to be convinced, though not active 
in the pursuit of knowledge, than to enter 
upon a mission so high in its purpose that it 
can only be attempted by the truly pure in 
heart without retarding the progress of the 
greatest number, which must always be con- 
sidered. 

By the term "pure in heart," it should 
not be taken that none but the ecclesias- 
tically minded are supposed to come under 



74 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

this head by any means. It indicates only 
that the aspirant shall himself be sure of 
his own integrity of purpose; that he shall 
exact of himself the full assurance that he 
is truly endeavoring to accomplish his task 
in the spirit of faith in the unseen world of 
so-called spirit. 

He should believe in the beneficence 
to mankind of the overruling law of 
love, which governs the children of men, 
if it can be revealed beyond question and 
all shadow of doubt, that direct commun- 
ion with our loved ones in a world beyond 
the plane of earth is not only possible but 
desirable, and that it has been the purpose 
of a benign force actuating life in individ- 
ual form from the beginning, that love 
should find its own upon all planes of con- 
sciousness. 

He should hope that the day will 
dawn when all worlds will become con- 
scious that they interrelate, since there 
is no such thing as distance or as past and 
future from the standpoint of time, once the 
individualized ego is released from the phy- 
sical body and enters into a larger vision of 
life than it is possible to comprehend while 
still upon the plane of dense matter called 
the earth world. 

This, then, is not so difficult after all, and 
there will be found people who from time to 
time all over the earth's surface have reached 
a point of inner conviction as to the truth 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 75 

of immortality and who will not only prove 
unquestionably to themselves but to their 
own world of contact that all life is a unified 
and glorious purpose without the element of 
so-called accident and chance, so greatly 
misunderstood and misrepresented upon 
earth, but a holy, beautiful unfoldment of 
the infinite quality of the Creator of all 
worlds and of all life. 

Little by little the reasons for struggle and 
for suffering will become so clearly under- 
stood that there will be far less bitterness 
and complaint in the world than now, and 
there will be a fuller realization of the move- 
ment on the earth plane to-day towards re- 
construction. In all departments of human 
and national life, the terror of unprincipled 
power working against the interests of the 
masses, will be turned by means of spiritual 
alchemy into a process of achievement des- 
tined to bring about the good of the whole, 
as over against the good of the individual, 
in a way impossible to believe or even to 
conceive at the present state of man's un- 
foldment upon the path of progress to-day. 

This will end our chapter for this morning. 
To-morrow we will pursue the process of 
approach to revelation in the personal sense 
a little further before leaving it for other 
subjects of enlightenment. The matter is one 
of paramount importance and cannot be 
handled with too much care in detail in order 
to insure to all who read this book the fullest 



76 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

knowledge of the subject before entering 
the field of investigation to establish the fact 
of communication with a plane of life beyond 
the one of earth. 

I thank you, dear instrument. This has 
been the longest and the most satisfactory 
transmission up to the present time. 

With salutations. 

A Friend of the Cause/' 



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VII 

Saturday, December 27th, 1919. 

The Mother speaking: 

"Dear Anne, Follow our instructions of 
yesterday. Approach this work with con- 
fidence of its accomplishment with ease and 
facility and all will be well. 

Your loving Mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear child, we hope as time goes on to 
make this task which at present is more or 
less arduous to you, one of pleasure and in- 
terest so that the transcription of messages 
through your hand will become a thing of 
slight physical effort and nothing more. 
When you cease the activity of your own 
thoughts enough to become a truly quies- 
cent instrument through which another 
force can work, it will greatly expedite the 
completion of the book, and hasten the ul- 
timate purpose which we are jointly serving. 

To return to the subject matter. Yes- 
terday upon leaving our task for the day we 
were at the point of constructing a basis of 
approach on the part of the aspirant to the 
place of transmitter between the two worlds 
to the actual ability to sit down with pencil 
in hand and receive the thoughts of others 



78 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

in another realm of existence, accurately 
and well, so that there will be no further 
need of seeking outside the home circle for 
communication between the members of the 
family upon earth and those who have passed 
beyond it. 

Little by little as confidence is established 
in this very simple proceeding and more and 
more devoted students espouse the cause, 
there will be an increased activity in the gen- 
eral direction of seeking for the truth of life 
and of the important question of immor- 
tality, until the time comes when there will 
be no longer an attitude of scornful forbear- 
ance upon the subject, but it will be eagerly 
reached for by countless men and women 
who now believe such an idea to be the re- 
sult of disordered thinking on the part of 
any adherent to so-called spiritistic theories. 

As time goes on it will also be found 
that the methods so widely adopted among 
the advocates of spiritual intercourse up to 
the present day will slowly but surely be 
done away with. Even the followers of the 
old methods of establishing some means of 
communication, whatever it might be, ma- 
terial or otherwise, will themselves realize 
that there is a higher and a far more uni- 
versal way. 

The true spiritist, whatever his walk 
in life may have been, will be the first 
to lay down his old methods in favor of 
the new, and will unfurl his banner on the 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 79 

side of the widespread movement to con- 
vince the world that communication between 
mortals and the inhabitants of the plane 
beyond the veil is not an unnatural pheno- 
menon confined to any one class or sect, or 
in any way a matter of selection, but is the 
human birthright awaiting only to be 
claimed. 

Here again we recognize the working of 
the law of demand and supply, which con- 
trols all worlds upon all planes of life. There 
can be no supply in the real sense of the 
word without a reaching towards it in some 
way, even if not apparent on the part of the 
individual. 

True it is that many people on earth 
to-day are unfamiliar with the law of 
demand and supply, but it is being constantly 
recognized by an increasing number and the 
time is not far distant when the world will 
attend to this most important inquiry on 
the part of the questioning masses because it 
confronts it in so widespread a way that it is 
impossible to evade the issue. 

The thinkers in all classes will be forced 
to study into the movements of the day in 
which they live in order to keep anything 
like an equal pace with the mass movement 
which had its beginning in the causes and 
the results of the world war not yet ended. 
These causes and results will in time to 
come, be looked upon as a beneficent mani- 
festation of the law of progress and spirit- 



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ual unf oldment, rather than merely the curse 
and terrible consummation of lust and greed 
of material power, presumably the active 
force in having brought about this great con- 
flict. 

Now to go back to the matter of prepara- 
tion which is required of the true aspirant 
to become a transmitter of knowledge and 
of consolation from the world beyond the 
veil. First of all as before stated he must 
be high in purpose and lacking in the desire 
to gratify the natural curiosity of man upon 
this unknown subject, and also recognize 
his obligation to his own higher self and to 
the best in the race consciousness which 
reaches for this truth in its real significance, 
else he will fail. 

He will even lay himself liable to a 
confusion of ideas upon the subject, which 
will forever during the rest of his phy- 
sical life upon earth render him unable 
to become convinced of anything con- 
structive or helpful in regard to the subject 
on account of his own ineffectual efforts 
along the same line of investigation. 

There is no proof to the individual in any 
line so wholly convincing as the fruit of his 
own investigation. There can be no com- 
parison made between the attitude of mind 
a man will hold towards any subject what- 
soever (about which there is a great dif- 
ference of opinion) which he himself has 
explored to his own entire satisfaction 



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and the attitude of the man who looks on 
and even credulously attempts to follow his 
friend's effort to convince him of the same 
given thing. His friend may be just as well 
prepared to pass on actual knowledge as any 
one else but no man is so fully convinced 
of any truth in that way. 

That is why the increase in the move- 
ment is so dependent on the increase in 
the number of volunteers who prove them- 
selves eventually to be fitted for the 
task of transcription and who find that 
this law is as actual in its working pro- 
cesses as the law of gravitation or any other 
well-known physical law, only it has never 
been fully understood. 

Consequently, it could not up to this time 
become general knowledge. The so-called 
"proof" of all things registering in the sphere 
of dense matter is something which most 
people feel must be attested to only by means 
of some physical sense, such as sight, hear- 
ing or touch or any one of the given five. 
Few there are who realize that the func- 
tioning of the processes of the brain of the 
individual is a matter which carries in its 
train all the possibilities of discovery and 
of successful research that could be asked 
for by the most exacting type of man on 
earth to-day. 

Within its scope not only as an instru- 
ment for the registration of daily events 
and the stored-up knowledge covering 



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the brief span of earth life, there is 
also the so-called subconscious strata. 
About this subject so much is being said and 
written these days that it sometimes makes 
the dwellers upon other planes, released to 
a greater field of activity and wider vision 
feel that it is a stupendous task indeed to re- 
veal to man the sublimity of the subject 
covered for the sake of making speech intel- 
ligible between all worlds, by the term sub- 
conscious mind. 

It is wholly beyond the power of 
earth speech to convey in anything like 
intelligible terms the vast significance 
of the phrase subconscious mind. Those 
who have passed to a more revealed 
state of being, realize this truth within a 
comparatively short space of time and try 
to deal with it much as they attempt to cope 
with the thought of eternity, something 
which the mind of man in any individual- 
ized form upon any plane, at the present 
point of evolution in the history of creative 
achievement, cannot grasp nor if he is wise 
does he attempt to do so. 

Surely it is too great a subject to deal 
with except in the most contributory sense 
in the compiling of this volume for the en- 
lightenment of its readers along the line of 
spiritual law governing communication be- 
tween the worlds of matter and of spirit, as 
they are called. 

Suffice it to say that when the time comes 



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upon earth that the least ray of real light 
becomes visible to man upon this great sub- 
ject, there will have been attained an 
established order in regard to the sequence 
pi all life, the following out of established 
principles governing the relations of all 
worlds to each other and of the inhabitants 
of all spheres, which is at this time impos- 
sible to convey in terms of earth language 
or in the language of any other world, re- 
moved by aeons of time and evolution from 
the world of dense matter, called earth. 

The attempts upon earth to solve the 
problems of universal significance reaching 
in their bearing upon life to all forms of life 
and every existent part of God's universe 
is one of the sad spectacles to men 
and women released to a plane of larger 
vision, and who thereby comprehend the 
difficulty confronting the pursuit of the 
cause of life and the subsequent errors which 
follow the purely mental conception of the 
origin of the species. 

This attitude is more often than not 
accepted by the most brilliant thinkers 
and has been in all ages. The futil- 
ity which confronts the seeker along the 
line of mental attainment alone ignoring 
the power of what is called spirit, which is 
rejected by the thinker as spurious and a 
most misleading and unauthorized force, is 
the most difficult problem with which the 



84 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

denizens of other worlds are faced in their 
attempt to reach the, plane of earth. 

From the standpoint of the revelation of 
great spiritual truths important above all 
else to the manifestation of a higher form of 
life and achievement in the world of sense 
to-day, we are at times convened for the 
purpose of working out a method which will 
combat the thinking man's processes over 
and against the general level of the thought 
processes of the mass mind. 

If the approach to earth could be made by- 
means of the arms of advanced mental de- 
velopment being laid down first of all, the 
rest of the battle for the conquest of earth 
and its conviction as to the fact of interrela- 
tion and communication between the two 
worlds, would be small indeed compared to 
what is before us now in the field of scienti- 
fic antagonism to the subject of spiritistic 
research in all its phases. 

Truly the task which lies ahead is one 
which all devout followers of any and 
all creeds embracing the quality of faith in 
the power of spirit, as an all-ruling force in 
the worlds throughout space, should unite 
to accomplish, as well as to overcome the 
wave of scepticism and unbelief which fol- 
lows in the wake of war as surely as the sea 
responds to the pulse of the tide. 

There should be no effort spared in the 
consecration to this work on the part of all 
mortals to whom has been vouchsafed suffi- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 85 

cient light upon this subject, so that they 
are able to be of service to their fellow-men, 
and lift their world of contact as they pass 
through the battlefield of human endeavor 
at this time. 

There has never been a time in the 
history of man when he has been so 
torn and so uncertain as to which way he 
should turn and which side he should join 
as to his future allegiance from the stand- 
point of the constructive or the destructive 
forces of life as in the period which followed 
immediately the cessation of actual war- 
fare in Europe at the signing of the armis- 
tice over a year ago. 

There is far more at stake in the affairs 
of men and nations than is conceived 
of upon earth to-day and a checking 
up of individual effort on one side or the 
other must be faced as time goes on. There 
is no possible alternative under the present 
conditions of extreme moment to the race. 

Now as not again in a cycle of many thou- 
sands of years may the individual choose 
for himself whether he will follow the forces 
which are deterring the forward movement 
of the race and holding it back in the con- 
sciousness of past ages or turn towards the 
constructive movement of the day. This 
forward movement is leading all men if they 
will but heed the voice of inner guidance to 
the light of understanding and glorious 



86 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

achievement, which is possible upon the 
earth plane to-day, as never before. 

The individual teacher of spiritual revela- 
tion has thousands upon thousands ready 
and waiting to follow the call of the voice 
of the spirit wherever it can be heard upon 
earth. To those to whom revelation comes, 
there is no other course than to pass on the 
light of the new day and to strengthen the 
conviction of a new purpose and a powerful 
incentive to new lines of conduct which come 
out of living in a greatly changed and in- 
creased sense, for of those who have the 
light to give much is required. 

They must hold the torch until that time 
comes when the day dawns in fullness and 
the light of knowledge floods the earth with 
an effulgence not of this world and people 
turn towards its radiance with gladness in 
the heart which cannot now be known, but 
which will regenerate the world of sense in 
a way not yet possible to reveal. 

Few indeed will be able to accept the truth 
of immortality and of intercommunication 
between the two worlds without a more or 
less bitter struggle within their own souls. 

Strange as it may seem the mind of man 
refuses to accept the thought of actual con- 
tinuance in individualized form of the per- 
sonal identity which also inhabited the earth 
world before transition, without a great deal 
of resistance. It is preached and it is held 



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theoretically to be true, but it is not really 
believed. 

Since no man has yet come back in 
form perceptible to sense as it functioned 
upon the earth plane, it is beyond proof, 
therefore in truth beyond belief. Yet count- 
less people assure themselves and others that 
they believe in the continuity of life. They 
think themselves that they do, but if this is 
so why the mourning in the prolonged sense 
which follows death so-called and why the, 
fear? 

If it were truly so that mortals be- 
lieve, actually believe, in the continuity of 
life and of identity, they would not think 
more of the parting caused by death than 
they do of the separation upon earth caused 
by the divergence of paths which makes it 
necessary for the time being but about which 
they are far from inconsolable, knowing full 
well there will be a day of reunion and of 
rejoicing. 

It should be similar in its effect upon the 
human mind to think of death if humans 
really believed in the reunion with their 
loved ones, when they too have passed 
beyond the veil of sense, but they do not. 

This is an established fact, generally 
speaking, and it is why human life is robbed 
of so great an amount of value from the eco- 
nomic standpoint of time and from the far 
more important standpoint of the banish- 
ment from the heart of man of the element 



05 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

of fear and shadow, which haunts the path- 
way of earth life from the beginning to the 
end, and which if dispelled would add to the 
sum total of human happiness and achieve- 
ment greater intensity and balance of power 
than can possibly be realized. 

With the fact of the continuity of life 
established upon earth, it would not be pos- 
sible to estimate the increase in usefulness, 
to say nothing of joy and peace in the attain- 
ment of human ideals or the consequent 
raising of the standards of perfection and 
the sum total of effort upon all fields of 
expression. 

Endeavor would be greatly intensified 
by this attainment if only for the reason 
that unbelief in this world has its natural 
reaction in other worlds beyond it for no 
man liveth to himself alone. The intricate 
alliance of individual and even world life 
is such that grief upon one plane causes its 
counterpart upon another and yet another, 
and there can be no such thing as detached 
relationship upon any plane of life. 

All life being interrelated so closely and 
space being a term designating so little to 
the more highly developed consciousness 
than that of the earth race to-day, it is 
impossible to affect one world in ever so 
slight a measure without affecting all 
others as well. As the one is elevated 
and developed to a higher plane of under- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 89 

standing, so all worlds are raised in the plan 
of creation in that exact measure. 

If only a few in each generation realize the 
significance of universality in this compre- 
hending sense, it helps the race consciousness 
along just that much and the more to whom 
this truth can be imparted, the greater the 
development of all life in all phases of evo- 
lution. 

True it is that this concept seems stag- 
gering in its application to any one unit or 
individual but it is nevertheless a great truth 
and when we realize the importance of each 
human life over and against the old idea of 
insignificance in the sight of God, when we 
know that what we are is of value, not only 
to our immediate world of contact but to the 
whole as well, we are bound to attach far 
more importance to our own individual de- 
velopment. 

We then do our part with renewed 
power and a greater sense of responsi- 
bility than can be possible to the man or 
woman who still belives in an unrelated uni- 
verse and chaotic conditions both above and 
below. There is either law and order 
throughout all space or there is none. 

Few indeed there be in this age who really 
believe in chaos, it is true. On the other 
hand it is rare to find the man who definitely 
takes a stand for truth, for truth's sake with- 
out fear in his heart of the opinion of other 
men, or groups of men, but who stands firm 



90 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

in his own convictions of truth as revealed 
to him through his own search for know- 
ledge, and who passes his light on at all times 
to those who turn to him for help. These 
are the true friends of the cause of enlight- 
enment upon earth. This will end the trans- 
cription for to-day. 

Do not become discouraged, dear instru- 
ment. The tide is not always with us, it is 
sometimes against us, and we must learn to 
do battle when there is need, but you are 
making a good fight and in the end you will 
win. I thank you. 

A Friend of the Cause/' 



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VIII 

Sunday, December 28th, 1919. 

"Dear Anne, be sure and follow out our 
previous instructions as nearly as you can 
for if you are careful to relax from the be- 
ginning and, as the Master says, make only 
physical effort, you will find the process less 
fatiguing and eventually one of pleasure and 
interest, deepening interest as the book ad- 
vances in its unfoldment. 

Love, dear, always, 

from 

Mother Emma." 

"Dear instrument, we approach the task 
this morning with renewed strength and 
vigour as a result of the overcoming of the 
difficulties which beset us yesterday, for it 
was surely a matter of distinct achievement 
for you to have counteracted the processes 
of your own mind which at one time bid fair 
to make it necessary to lay aside our work 
until another day. 

This morning, however, it is quite dif- 
ferent and despite the fact of a few rip- 
ples upon the surface of your thought 
processes which are not perceptible to you — 
the prospect is good and I think the message 
will be productive of results very much 
worth while. 



92 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

Try and remember that if you can 
keep the pencil in motion, even if there 
should be an erroneous term used now and 
then which could be easily corrected after- 
wards, it helps far more than to stop and 
ponder, for that starts independent action 
of the brain which I in turn have to counter- 
act. Now to the book once more. 

We were speaking yesterday of the 
matter of the inclination of the individual 
away from the subject of investigation as to 
the continuity of life, and the preservation 
of the personal equation after so-called 
death. 

It is interesting to note that from 
an experimental standpoint on this side of 
.the veil we have often proven to our own 
complete satisfaction the fact that incredu- 
lity upon this subject is an established thing 
upon the earth plane, and one which it is 
all but impossible to eradicate, save in indi- 
vidual instances. Even those are accom- 
plished only by the most persistent and 
loving efforts and in comparatively few in- 
stances does the knowledge become really 
knowledge to them. There is still in almost 
every case an element of the conjectural 
about it. 

This is true even of people who have 
evidence heaped high on the positive 
side of corroboration in connection with 
events in a given life, for instance, which 
could not under any circumstances have been 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 93 

known to but two parties, one still upon the 
earth plane and one beyond the veil. Yet 
every sort of reasoning process possible to 
the one still upon the earth plane is resorted 
to, to account for what is commonly called 
phenomena in order to dispense with the 
possibility that it is really only accounted 
for upon the simple grounds of spiritistic 
communication between the two worlds of 
sense and spirit. 

The reason for this is that all men 
deep down in their own inner being 
think that if communion between the worlds 
were really so simple a thing, it would have 
been known upon earth before; that it is 
impossible that anything of such great im- 
port should be revealed to him instead of to 
his fellows and he establishes in his mind a 
reason of some kind which accounts for the 
manifestation of communication not being 
valid. 

He tries as a rule to keep the whole 
matter in the background of his mind as 
much as possible. Then, too, he has always 
the lurking fear in his heart which haunts 
so many children of earth that danger be- 
sets this pathway on every side and that the 
machinations of the so-called devil are ap- 
parent in the least whisper from the voices 
of those whom we have loved and lost to 
sense. 

He thinks that in order to retain his 
position as an orderly and respected citizen 



94 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

on the plane where he is living his earthly 
life, he would better pay all his attention to 
matters pertaining to this same earth world, 
which is after all so comfortable and dear 
in many of its aspects in spite of its woes 
and keep to the old adage "One world at a 
time." 

This is a sort of slogan in connection with 
the questions pertaining to psychical re- 
search in all its phases, just as in war it is 
supposedly the thing to keep to the study 
and the advancement of one battle or one 
manoeuvre at a time, rather than to try at 
any one given time to project one's thought 
too far ahead as to the solution of the whole 
process of war and its ultimate effect upon 
history. 

The wise commander does more com- 
prehensive surveying of the whole in so 
far as he can grasp it, than is generally 
known. Few victories indeed would have 
been attained by means of a lesser scope on 
the part of the one in command over all the 
troops upon the battle-field if the vision was 
not far-reaching and the power to analyze 
the situation far beyond the significance 
of a day's work. 

Although this is an ineffectual paral- 
lel and cannot be likened to the view- 
point which could reasonably be held by 
any thinking individual in connection 
with the question of life in its permanent 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 95 

sense, still the two relative subjects have 
their points in common. 

The soldier does his part in obeying the 
highest law he knows, which is the com- 
mand of his superior officer. We in turn 
are placed in very much the same position, 
only from the standpoint of spiritual un- 
foldment there is no superior officer save 
that court of truth within the human soul 
which adjusts for the individual the differ- 
ing conflicts of daily life and of moral 
struggle if he will but permit it to do so. 

As he goes on in life, learning each day to 
turn within for guidance, he slowly but 
surely becomes convinced that the only way 
to light and to the understanding of life 
from a higher standpoint than he has pre- 
viously known is to follow the instinct which 
prompts him ever and with increasing power 
as he listens to this means of guidance until 
that hour strikes when he can trust it utterly 
and without misgiving. 

From that day there is an' indication 
to all the world of contact which he 
touches in passing that this man or 
woman as the case may be has undergone 
some process of achievement, which is not 
known to others, and they at once begin to 
wonder what the change may be and if there 
is a way in which this truth or light may 
not be passed to them as well. 

One such life is a great stimulus to all life 
which it contacts in any way and countless 



96 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

instances of this kind may be found among 
Christian Scientists to-day. This is espe- 
cially true whenever the person concerned 
has previously been difficult in his or her 
relationships with other people, and in many 
cases the change is so marked as to cause 
wide-spread comment and countless con- 
jectural opinions on the part of the co- 
workers as to the cause and the probability 
or rather improbability of the change being 
a lasting one. 

In some instances the improvement, the 
almost miraculous change from a fractious, 
fault-finding type of man, we will say for 
purposes of illustration, into a helpful, con- 
siderate companion or instructor of some 
kind, is so stupefying in its effect upon people 
who have had no previous experience of the 
marvelous effect of the law of love and 
truth operating upon earth in its natural and 
harmonizing fashion, that it is beyond the 
power of speech to express it adequately. 

In consequence the less the comment of a 
critical nature which follows this condition 
constantly increasing upon the earth plane 
and exhibiting itself in most unexpected 
places, in most unlooked-for ways regardless 
of race, creed, kind or color, and bearing 
with it an increase of goodwill and brother- 
hood upon earth, the value of which it is 
impossible to estimate. 

This great movement to-day is being re- 
garded by many thinking people wholly out- 



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side the fold of Christian Science followers 
themselves as a fact with which it is well to 
reckon and countless doctors and men of 
science in different lines have given to the 
subject far more study and attention than 
they would care to have made public. 

Taken as a class these people who in a 
sense are onlookers and would call them- 
selves open-minded observers are not unim- 
pressed by the advance of this line of thought 
by any means and many reasons are offered 
for its acceptance by what they would call a 
highly intelligent class of people from any 
other standpoint. 

Some of these reasons are interesting 
and amusing, and some come very near 
to being the true reason for the wide- 
spread favor with which Christian Science 
is received by millions of children dwelling 
upon the earth plane to-day. 

One of the most amusing theories, which 
is offered by the man who rejects Christian 
Science as impossible of acceptance, and its 
followers not far removed from aberration 
in the minds of all sane thinkers, is the one 
which puts forth the claim that when 
people speak of science it can deal only 
with matter and with force, which it is pos- 
sible to know something about from the 
standpoint of actual knowledge. Therefore 
the term Christian Science is in itself a mis- 
nomer as no one could possibly connect the 
word Science with the matter of religion, for 



98 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

the two are as removed as the sea and the 
sky, and there could be no relation between 
them at any point. 

So he discards it at the outset without 
more than a statement pertaining to its 
utter unfeasibility and turns to matters 
more worthy of his own attention, leav- 
ing the question of religion in all its 
phases to a different type of mind than his 
own, glorying in the fact that he is engaged 
with affairs of far greater importance and 
glad that he is not a weakling to whom mat- 
ters called spiritual are of paramount signi- 
ficance. 

It is enough for him to safeguard hu- 
man life in the span which exists here and 
now in the physical body. With this matter 
he is greatly concerned, but in his heart he 
sometimes wonders if after all the seekers 
of spiritual truth so-called have not the ad- 
vantage in a world so fraught with mystery. 

He also wonders at times at the action of 
natural law upon the plane which we wit- 
ness in its daily working and to which we 
become only too well accustomed for it to 
cause us the least sense of awe or even of 
particular interest. 

He thinks of how we accept the law 
of birth and growth from the human 
standpoint as well as that of all the 
lesser kingdoms, how it ceases almost alto- 
gether to cause any feeling of wonder con- 
cerning the working of laws not yet under- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 99 

stood any more than the so-called spiritual 
laws. Yet we accept them as easily as we 
breathe and function on the physical plane, 
which is in every way as miraculous as the 
continued functioning upon another plane 
differing from this one little save in the 
rapidity of its vibration, rendering it for that 
reason impossible of perception by the 
human being still vibrating at a lower rate 
himself. 

He therefore assumes that whatever 
he cannot perceive by means of the five 
senses of being upon the plane where he him- 
self exists, cannot exist upon any other. In 
this way he satisfies himself for the most 
part, but he has his dim moments when he 
wonders if he is right and who will in the 
long run turn out to be the weakling after 
all. This attitude of mind is never wholly 
revealed, however, to his most intimate com- 
panions, hardly indeed to himself. 

However, to continue with the reasons 
which are offered by the opposition to all 
the newer forms of religious attitudes of 
mind to-day, there is another which is in- 
teresting and has some foundation for being. 
It is the reason often used to prevent people 
from allying themselves with any church 
outside the old established order because in 
so doing the morale of the masses is weak- 
ened, and if the power of the body of the 
church wanes in the land, the result would 
indeed be lamentable. 



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None realize even by making special 
mental effort what the life of any na- 
tion would become without the influence 
of the church at its heart and with- 
out its influence to counteract all power 
from the standpoint of destructive forces 
were it for one day removed from the inner 
and public life of man. The conception is 
too difficult of attainment and should not 
be attempted if only for the sake of energy 
uselessly wasted in the process. 

The Church will stand, of that there 
has never been question, but that the in- 
terpretation of truth and the word of 
God, as it is called, should change is as 
inevitable as that in the present age men 
travel by all modes of locomotion over 
and against the caravan of ancient days. As 
inevitably as they now accept the reality of 
thought waves as demonstrated by the Mar- 
coni system of establishing a registering 
point for the receiving of thought waves, 
just so surely is the time coming when 
thought transference will no longer be looked 
upon as a matter of mysterious and even 
questionable value but as one of the recog- 
nized forces in the life of all men upon all 
planes. It will be the medium of direct com- 
munication between the children of earth 
and the loved ones who are still living and 
breathing entities swayed by emotions, sim- 
ilar to those which they experienced while 
in the dense body upon earth and awaiting 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 101 

with enduring patience the time when the 
loved ones left upon earth work out their 
own way to truth and light upon this vast 
subject of communication between them. 

This condition to the inhabitants of other 
worlds awakened to the realization of this 
great truth is so desirable and so simple that 
they feel they must pass the knowledge 
which floods their own souls with joy and 
radiance hitherto unknown to all who cross 
their path and who in turn reach out for 
light and still more light as to the purpose 
of life. So many hunger and yet fear to ad- 
mit even to themselves that if they knew 
this truth to be truth to them, they would 
not follow in the quest of increasing knowl- 
edge and power for this reason. 

There is in the world to-day, a great sen- 
sitiveness in regard to being considered 
"queer" or different from one's fellows, and 
the moment that a human soul is singled out 
as being a believer even, to say nothing of be- 
ing a transmitter between the two worlds, 
people begin at once to wonder if he really 
can be like the rest of the human family, or 
if he does not function on a slightly different 
plane. 

It is not strange that people hesitate 
to take the first step in this direction, es- 
pecially from the standpoint of outside crit- 
icism, for they know only too well what the 
results to follow will be; but the time is at 
hand when instead of its being something 



102 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to cover (this fact of a family upon earth 
being able to develop a transmitter), it will 
be a matter of the greatest rejoicing and 
there will be every reason that it should be 
known and shared. 

As time goes on, the influence of the occa- 
sional convert will be widespread and great 
interest and stimulus along the line of in- 
dividual thinking will follow as a result of 
more and more attention being given to the 
subject. 

This process will penetrate to all classes 
of men and women regardless of condition, 
until from the ranks of every calling and all 
walks of life there will be recruits and an 
army formed of true seekers after knowl- 
edge of the laws which govern the commun- 
ication between the dwellers upon earth and 
those upon the planes beyond it, and none 
shall say them nay. 

No power can withstay the knowledge of 
this great truth and of its importance to the 
children of men once it reaches to the shores 
of earth so that the mass mind stops to lis- 
ten. 

The matter of greatest significance per- 
taining to the revelation of this truth is the 
fact that it is entirely demonstrable to the 
individual himself in some way; whether 
through his own instrumentality or through 
that of some one whom he knows and trusts, 
the revelation can and will come if he truly 
wishes for the unfoldment of this momentous 



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truth in his own life, but it lies with him to 
claim it. 

This must ever be borne in mind, that 
no truth is for any individual soul at any 
point of progress upon the path save by means 
of his own desire. So it is always well to 
study our own desires carefully if we would 
like to see for ourselves how truly they 
regulate the manifestation of results upon 
our path. 

Was there ever an instance known 
when a man filled some great place of power 
and responsibility that he did not at heart 
desire that such a condition should at 
some time and in some way be realized in 
his life and lead him to the height of 
his ambitions, whatever they might be? 
He might desire manifestation to come when 
it did come in an altogether different form 
from the one in which it finally precipitates 
itself upon his path, but if he is honest with 
himself he will acknowledge that he has 
brought about all conditions which are con- 
tributory causes to the one ultimate goal 
which he has placed before his eyes as a 
guiding star, even though a great way off. 

If he analyzes the processes intelligently 
enough, he will recognize the truth of this 
statement, that although we do not by any 
means arbitrate the method to be used in 
the development of a plan of life, which will 
make our desires a thing of actuality, we are 
our own arbiters as to the nature of our 



104 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

desires even though the specific work which 
we thought to be the object of our pursuit is 
not what we had definitely in mind in the 
beginning at all. 

For instance, a man may be attached 
to a plant or organization of some kind, 
which he finds to be not altogether to 
his liking as far as his own present re- 
lationship with the management is con- 
cerned. He may admire the object and the 
aim of its purpose; be wholly in sympathy 
with the production of cotton or wool or 
steel, as the case may be, but not at all in 
sympathy with the management or the way 
the output is being handled from the begin- 
ning to the end. 

Consequently, he finds himself wishing 
ardently that he was in a position to 
convey to those in authority some of 
the valuable suggestions which he con- 
siders himself capable of passing on to the 
good of all concerned, but sees no way of 
accomplishing this object, which upon being 
analyzed reduces itself to the immediate re- 
sult of his desires. 

Now by the working out of law which we 
can best call the law of cause and effect, he 
sets in motion forces caused by the trans- 
mission of desire thoughts along the line of 
accomplishment. Thoughts being no longer 
considered ephemeral processes of mind 
which evaporate with the passing moment, 
he thereby sets in motion thought currents 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 105 

which connect with his own mental pro- 
cesses. 

The result is they act in a perfectly 
orderly way to put him in touch with forces 
or conditions which will bring about a real- 
ization eventually of the desire which has 
intensified in his own heart to fit him- 
self into the constructive end of the organ- 
ization with which he is connected in a way 
that will please him far more and prove to 
his employers that his suggestions are worth 
while. 

However, this unfailing law of cause 
and effect does not always act as we would 
have it, and the aspirant soon finds that 
although his position is unaccountably 
changed, still the change is one the nature 
of which he would have questioned greatly 
had he been consulted before it was made. 
The reason for this is because he thinks that 
he is fitted for a place in the constructive end 
of the undertaking for which he is not really 
fitted at all. 

He has not served his apprenticeship and 
until we all learn the true meaning of the 
word apprenticeship, we do not progress at 
a rapid rate, for service and preparation for 
all great achievements and movements of 
every kind, are as necessary to the indivi- 
dual as rain and sun to the growth of 
flowers. There is no other way to reach a 
high place of value to the construction of 
any plan leading to heights of power and of 



106 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

attainment, save through the knowledge 
that desire must be correspondingly high. 

The willingness to accept the working out 
of the results of our desires in just that pro- 
portion that they are high and fine reacts 
in accordance with the rule of well-being 
which has its mainspring in the honesty of 
purpose with which any man surmounts the 
obstacles which confront him in his strug- 
gles upon the plane of earth. 

When he admits to himself that his de- 
sires are often for power for the sake of 
power and realizes only too well that the 
price required for their attainment is too 
high, too great for him to pay without a 
form of self-development which he is not yet 
ready to undertake, then and only then will 
he begin to be truly fitted for the larger task 
and find its apprenticeship a joy and not an 
irksome and laborious process. 

This will end the chapter for this morning. 
The purpose has been well served to-day, 
dear child of earth, and we hope that this 
unbroken method of communication may 
continue throughout the completion of the 
book, as it will greatly facilitate matters for 
us both. I thank you. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 107 



IX 

Monday, December 29th, 1919. 

"Anne dear, approach your task with the 
same confidence which you displayed yes- 
terday and all will be well. The pencil runs 
astray once in a while over a word or so, 
but never over the sense. 
Goodbye. 

Your loving mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear child, try as much as you can from 
the beginning to the end of each message to 
realize that the pencil will form the next 
word without your help in any way if you 
will let it. In this way and only in this way 
does writing called automatic become purely 
that. 

In no case have you failed in the trans- 
cription of the subject matter itself, but in 
a few instances there is a phraseology which 
would not have been used in quite the same 
way, were it not for the recurring tendency 
upon your part to interpolate from time to 
time, always however in a way which does 
not detract in the least from the meaning or 
significance of the papers. 

It is doubtless valuable information to 
you to know that in no case where there 
has been an able transmitter, willing and 



108 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

glad to do the part required of him in 
this process, have I known of an in- 
stance where the writer was not more 
or less handicapped in the same way, 
for there is always the intense desire to be 
of the utmost assistance in the proceeding 
on the part of the instrument. The phase is 
a necessary one which must be met and 
overcome in order to accomplish the greatest 
amount of accurate work within a given 
space of time. 

Yesterday's work was accomplished more 
easily than that of any two days to- 
gether that has been done hitherto, and 
in the remaining time which we are to 
use for the production of the book we are 
so deeply interested in, I am sure there will 
be no more drawbacks and the end will be 
greatly facilitated by the acquiescent atti- 
tude of your mind. 

Do not read over any given passage if you 
can avoid it and hold the pencil in as light 
a grasp as possible. Now to the book. 

Yesterday we were discussing towards the 
end of the chapter the matter of the chang- 
ing attitude in the minds of men upon the 
earth plane in regard to the matter of spirit- 
istic investigation in all its phases. 

It is a most interesting fact to note that in 
every instance where a community of people 
is dwelling outside the rush and turmoil of 
the city, there is to be found a certain per- 
centage of the population that is more open 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 109 

to the suggestion of spiritual influence and 
guidance than the mass of people living in 
the rapid and ever-changing flood of events 
in a large city. 

There it is found more difficult to reach 
the attention of a possible instrument than 
in a locality where the environment is such 
that they are more quiet in mind and in their 
bodily pursuits than they would otherwise 
be. 

That is why it is to us a matter of great 
rejoicing when a soul sufficiently developed 
to be of service to the cause on both sides of 
the veil, takes the step of withdrawal from 
the perplexities and complications of life in 
a great city and comes into the realization of 
the great benefits accompanying this change 
of plan. And who also learns at last that 
it is only in quiet and more or less natural 
and harmonious surroundings that the voices 
of the so-called spirit world can reach the 
souls of men and awaken in them the impulse 
to seek for light and still more light upon 
this unexplored subject. 

Under such conditions they come to know 
more of spiritual truth than has been re- 
vealed on the plane of earth before, and 
they find for themselves that the con- 
viction within the human heart cannot be 
false, that love doth find its own in all 
realms of life and upon all planes of con- 
sciousness. 

Now as never before the heart of man is 



110 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

calling upon his Maker for a sign. There 
are undried tears upon the earth plane in 
this generation that cannot be wiped away 
without the hand of pity from above, which 
is indeed ready and waiting to perform this 
glorious task for all suffering humanity if 
they will but listen and hasten to the door- 
way bidding the loved ones enter and re- 
ceive the blessing which comes out of re- 
union, such as has heretofore been dreamed 
of as possible only in another world. 

When the door between the worlds of 
sense and spirit is opened a little farther than 
it is now, there will be a growing movement 
among the masses as well as among the 
thinkers and philosophers of the race to 
demand an equal right to truth concerning 
the matter of spiritual communication. 

There will be great need of ability to deal 
with this problem in a way that is sufficiently 
broad and comprehensive to cover the neces- 
sity of establishing centres where people can 
be taught this truth; where they will be told 
intelligently and competently how a process 
of enlightenment may be built up which will 
be within their scope of comprehension and 
which will satisfy them as to the universal- 
ity of the message. 

That point after all is the mainspring of 
all spiritual law, its universality. If truth 
which is called spiritual, (though in fact all 
truth is spiritual,) does not comply in all 
ways with this requirement, it is invalid. 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 111 

It is the supreme test of truth that it 
applies to all classes and all conditions 
of men. Otherwise it cannot be truth, 
for truth applies unfailingly in all cases 
of a like nature in exactly the same way 
just as in the instance of a man rich or 
poor, high or low, who in falling from a great 
height, reaches the ground precipitately in 
answer to the working of the law of gravita- 
tion, so the laws we call spiritual are equally 
immutable and work with the same fine 
exactness in all cases, else they are not 
laws. 

Nothing in the creative plan permits of 
suspension from the processes of operation. 
There is no cessation of the laws of growth 
and consequent evolution from time to time, 
as there is in the apparent onward progress 
of man as an individual during his span of 
life upon earth. Were it possible to enter- 
tain such an idea for a moment by way of 
illustration, there would be resultant chaos 
in all processes of law which would permit 
of no further order on any plane, whatever. 

The world of dense matter and all other 
worlds would be irretrievably lost to their 
own orbit and the momentum of endless 
years of movement would precipitate the 
stars and all their satellites into space in 
a way impossible for the mind of man 
to follow in the least degree. Conse- 
quently save by way of making clear by 
means of a vivid word picture, it is not well 



112 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to think at length upon the subject of the 
suspension of law. 

Sufficient it is for us to realize that 
it does not, that it cannot suspend, and 
to so conduct our lives in accordance 
with the laws of spirit, as they are re- 
garded by men, that we reach a place 
where we honor them and are actuated by 
them as much as by the so-called physical 
laws of life. 

Without due respect for the laws which 
govern matter in its varying forms of mani- 
festation, there would be few indeed who 
would achieve the stature of manhood upon 
earth. They would be cut off at the first 
serious offense in childhood were there no 
one to guide them through the early years 
of their journey through life, and later, often 
unconscious of certain laws of the physical 
world, they learn them only by means of 
hard lessons fraught with suffering and 
remorse. 

It is also true that as man evolves and 
questions within himself as to the why and 
wherefore of existence which seems at times 
to be like nothing so much as a blind alley 
leading to a blank wall over and around 
which there is no passage, he learns that one 
of the most profound things in his whole ex- 
istence, when he comes to analyze it care- 
fully, is this fact: that in spite of facing the 
inevitable end of man from the beginning of 
life, in other words the certain climax of all 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 113 

transitory life, the grave, he is still content 
and at times even happy in the present mom- 
ent and the enjoyment of life upon the physi- 
cal plane, and bothers himself in countless 
instances very little if at all with philoso- 
phies as to the uncertain nature of the world 
to come. 

Underneath the exterior of the most 
careless life upon earth, there is a haunting 
dread of the future, but this type of man is 
not sufficiently evolved to be acutely un- 
happy or distressed over any matter per- 
taining to another world than the one with 
which he is for the moment engaged. 

Consequently any thought which has to 
do with the final outcome of life, is to him 
one of little moment because the present 
world is all that assumes any importance 
whatever for him and he wonders that any 
other world can interest other people, es- 
pecially any of his friends, which by the way 
it seldom does. 

By the law of attraction it is seldom in- 
deed that the thinker drifts into the environ- 
ment of the pleasure-seeking type or vice 
versa. However such things are not un- 
known, but when they do occur it inevitably 
means a parting of the ways. 

To resume the subject of a bureau or 
centre of some kind for the distribution of 
such knowledge as must in some way be 
made possible for the masses to acquire, it 
seems as though it might be that a group of 



114 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

co-workers, all of whom have enjoyed the 
high privilege themselves of direct commun- 
ication between the two worlds, could or- 
ganize in a small way at first a cooperative 
force for the particular purpose of working 
out this problem. 

Little by little, it would grow in its 
departments until it met the needs of the 
many as well as the few, for there should 
be some sort of concentrated effort made in 
order to disseminate the methods of in- 
struction along this line of development, so 
that people would be able to approach the 
subject intelligently and not hysterically. 

In the end there would be a far 
greater condensed body of instruments able 
to transmit accurately and well who had pre- 
served throughout the process the strength 
of poise and purpose with which they 
entered the ranks of aspirants for the 
power of transmission, and far greater 
good would be achieved than as if people 
impelled by great desire and longing here, 
there and everywhere, over the whole world, 
directed their own efforts. 

With help and guidance from those who 
had passed over the same pathway before 
them, who could show the way and avoid for 
others the stumbling blocks which they 
themselves encountered, much time and 
strength would be saved, which might far 
better be spent in a more constructive way. 

It seems as if it would be highly advisable 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 115 

to have these centres wherever the need 
might arise and as they develop and enlarge, 
there would be more and more of the con- 
verts to this truth urge upon others the ne- 
cessity for intelligent cooperation. 

The time is not far off when it will be as 
much and more of a necessity to attain some 
knowledge of the laws governing the sur- 
vival of bodily death than it is now a matter 
of pressing necessity that each and every 
child in all enlightened countries in the world 
shall enter upon their birthright of a liberal 
education. 

This is admitted to be the first requi- 
site in these days to any field of endeavor 
upon the earth plane that is worth consider- 
ing from the standpoint of real progress. 

When this time comes there will be un- 
accountable resources from which to draw 
for the establishment upon earth of a body 
of workers fitted in many ways to become 
instructors in the teaching of so important 
a process in the unfoldment of race con- 
sciousness, and it will grow to a point which 
is unbelievable at this time, but which is 
less incredible than it would have been even 
a decade ago. 

Who would have believed ten years 
ago that upon the shelves of the best 
and most well-established book concerns 
in the world to-day there would be piled 
high at this time the records of automatic 
writing of any and all kinds coming un- 



116 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

der a high order of transcription, but 
which do not in any measure meet the 
demand which is being made for them by the 
public in ever-increasing volume? 

The time is indeed near when people will 
not be withheld from the pursuit of this 
knowledge in an individual way. Conse- 
quently the thing which is at this time of 
paramount importance is that they should 
be led to the point of conviction in the mat- 
ter for themselves, intelligently and wisely 
by those who have had the experience be- 
fore them and who know. 

It would be better for people from the 
standpoint of the masses and in every other 
sense as well if there could be some organ- 
ized field of endeavor especially designed for 
the purpose of preparing leaders to be able 
to direct and guide the race thought along 
this line from the standpoint of his or her 
world of personal contact. 

After all, we can none of us do more than 
lift our own world of contact as we journey 
through all worlds, for the mere effort to 
think of numbers beyond the scope of im- 
mediate personal attention in connection 
with a subject so vast and so important as 
the one concerning the survival of the indi- 
vidual, is indeed depressing and even incom- 
prehensible. We must confine eourselves in 
our thought processes as well as in our activ- 
ities to the relative world which we our- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 117 

selves come in touch with daily throughout 
all life. 

As we grasp the fact that there are work- 
ers along any and all given lines of endeavor 
doing very nearly the same thing as we are 
doing and endeavoring in turn to pass on 
their light such as it is, we get some idea of 
the endless chain of influence which starts 
with the few and increases in a ratio impos- 
sible to calculate in numbers or in value. 
None know how great any one individual in- 
fluence may be or how great a number of 
followers may in their turn increase the sum 
total of human knowledge through his 
teaching. 

There could also be a series of schools in 
time, built up for the process of enlighten- 
ment in the truest and best sense along this 
line of the action of thought and its devel- 
opment, which would do much towards facil- 
itating the growth of sincere aspirants to 
the position of transmitter in a given family 
or community. 

There is a type of person valuable too 
from the standpoint of this work who 
would be attracted by the dignity of a 
more or less established custom of edu- 
cation in all lines of progress and of learn- 
ing, who would be less likely to be impressed 
to the same degree by any individual teacher 
whoever he might be. 

These are suggestions which it would 
be well to bear in mind when the time 



118 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

comes, for there will be need for the 
most expert treatment of the situation 
at this place in its development where, as in 
all great forward movements there is not 
the supply at hand to meet an unexpected 
demand. 

No man is wise enough to predict with 
any measure of accuracy what the results of 
present-day thinking will be, but this is 
known at this time upon the plane called 
spiritual; that the increase in this direction 
is bound to be beyond what is thought by 
man to-day upon earth to be possible, but 
only proof will convince him that the state- 
ments made in this book as well as in other 
writings of a similar nature are true. 

Time, however, proves all things. This is 
a consoling fact and the sooner we realize 
that we may lay down the varied problems 
which confront us in our evolution upon all 
planes of existence and leave them when it 
seems wise to the kindly ministrations 
known as the softening influence of time, 
the sooner we awaken to the fact that time 
is a greater factor in the working out of life 
in its true sense than can be fully realized or 
accepted while still upon the plane of dense 
matter. 

This is difficult for mortals to understand 
as they gauge so much of their earth life by 
means of hours and days and even moments, 
but to those who are released upon planes of 
activity where the asset of time is not con- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 119 

fined to that of the governing of a sequence 
of events in the material world, there comes 
the realization that there it acts as a medium 
pure and simple in which people work at 
leisure, without the impending sense of 
disaster which haunts the earth dweller, if 
he loses for more than a few moments of 
time his sense of the passing hour. 

With this realization of the release from 
bondage which the slavery to time requires 
of mortals upon earth, there comes a more 
full and free acceptance of the goodness 
and kindness of the Father of men and His 
enduring love for his children. 

There also comes to the individual upon 
a higher plane of life than that of earth 
the healing - power which is imparted to 
all peoples, all races and to all move- 
ments with the passing of the sense of 
time, so that he grows to be content and 
allows the beneficent process to take its own 
allotted method in the working out of the 
most remedial power known on earth to-day. 

He becomes confident that the age will 
come when mortals, never fully freed from 
the eternal recurrence of the demands of 
routine and from the necessity of the divi- 
sion of the day into spaces which must be 
used in a certain way or frustrate the plans 
of others equally dependent upon the knowl- 
edge of the hour and its obligations, will 
have learned the lesson of the futility of 
haste and of feverish activity. 



120 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

Do not misunderstand the purpose of the 
statements which have been made as to the 
relative sense in which the term time is used 
upon different planes. The marking of time 
is actual and necessary, and its bearing upon 
human life unquestionable but the point to 
be remembered is that countless people make 
a greater factor of time than they need and 
they are not always by any means the care- 
fully punctual type who consider other peo- 
ple's time as much as they do their money. 

They do, however, pass through the plane 
of dense matter as if this life were a thing 
which they must make the greatest possible 
haste to accomplish and in this way they 
render the entire journey one of more or 
less futility and discomfort, not only to 
themselves but to everyone around them. 

Do we not all know the hurried type of 
man or woman who is seldom poised for a 
moment, except in flight and who has never 
very much time to give to matters which 
are not above all else of paramount import- 
ance to themselves? It is a rather unhappy 
story, that of the hurried life of an eager 
and adventurous soul, for such they usually 
are, but the fact remains that they are tired 
of the struggle in a way unknown to those 
who wear the mantle of human affairs 
with more ease and grace and who do not 
feel the extreme sense of pressure which so 
often afflicts the high-strung nervous type. 

The man who can for the time being throw 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 121 

off the fettering claim of time and rest 
peacefully in the thought that the hour at 
least belongs to him and that he may use it 
in any way he chooses, has attained a place 
of peace within his own soul which the hur- 
ried man does not yet know. Time is an as- 
set here; about that there can be no mistake. 

The fact remains, however, that the man 
who becomes a slave to the sense of neces- 
sity of increasing activity in the earth world 
on account of the passing of time, without 
the uplifting and supporting sense in the 
background of his mind that time is eternity, 
that we are just as much in eternity now as 
we ever have been or ever will be, that man 
has a heart-breaking period of unfoldment 
ahead upon his pathway through which he 
must pass, or learn meanwhile that there is 
no need for haste. 

Man will yet learn that there is time 
for all things in their appointed order, 
that he needs only to prepare himself 
from day to day with a sense underlying the 
least and the greatest thing he attempts to 
do, that it is of permanent value and that 
no effort is wasted. 

He will learn too that all true endeavor 
is a means of helping not only himself to a 
higher level of consciousness but also that 
of his entire world of contact, and that upon 
this basis life becomes infinitely more beau- 
tiful and worth-while. 

Eventually he will question for himself in- 



122 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to the matter of personal existence after so- 
called death and he will no longer be satis- 
fied with what is given him by others who 
have thought for him hitherto, but will reach 
towards the light of fuller knowledge and 
understanding for himself, and will find it 
to be beyond money and beyond price in its 
bearing upon life and happiness throughout 
all earthly existence. We will consider this 
the end of the chapter for to-day, as our in- 
strument is tired. We must not tax our 
transmitters too severely, for our need of 
them is great. 

I thank you, dear instrument. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 123 



X. 



Tuesday, December 30th, 1919. 

The Mother speaking: 

"Anne dear, do not feel hurried or a sense 
of needless obligation to the exact minute. 
We all understand that you try hard to keep 
the appointments promptly, but if you are 
delayed a little, do not let it worry you, es- 
pecially when it is occasioned by your get- 
ting out into the open air for a little, for that 
always helps. Goodbye, dear, until later. 
Your mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear instrument, it looks this morning as 
if conditions were most favorable, so we will 
begin upon the message without delay. 

Yesterday we were dealing with the fac- 
tor of time in its relation to human affairs. 
To-day we will take up the subject of the re- 
velation to men which is at hand also in its 
relation to the matter of time as the instru- 
ment in marking the approach of events 
which stand out as landmarks, in man's jour- 
ney throughout eternity. 

There is a distinct relation between the 
entrance of so many thinkers and educators 
of the race into the field of psychic investi- 
gation and the processes which brought to 



124 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

a high point of achievement the navigation 
of the air which is called air-plane service 
upon earth to-day. 

Time and space are to be mastered in a 
corresponding and a surpassingly short space 
of time, as gauged by the terms of earth lan- 
guage. The similarity of conquest between 
the elements of time and space which enter 
into the life of man upon earth to so great a 
degree is something few people in all proba- 
bility connect as being one of significance 
with the development of the progress of the 
race. 

It is, however, exceedingly significant 
and the follower of spiritistic research and 
its consequent results, calculated to change 
the plan of life upon earth more than 
any other one revelation made to man 
up to the present day, will find a marked 
relation between the processes along the 
line of the development of aviation and that 
of psychic investigation. 

The term "death" when used in the 
compiling of this book is a purely rela- 
tive one, and is used with reservation be- 
cause the idea expressed by that one 
word stands in the minds of all men for 
the end of man, but from our viewpoint here 
stands for such a different thing that it is 
difficult to use the word at all without qual- 
ifying it in some way. 

However, as to the similarity between the 
two methods of development referred to 



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above, it is interesting to note that in the be- 
ginning of the valiant attempts to conquer 
the medium of space called air, there were 
tremendous casualties, there still are and 
will continue to be until the time comes 
when the elements going towards the make- 
up of forces acting independently of the 
force called the law of gravitation, are far 
better understood than they are now. This 
cannot be until some recognition is made of 
the fact that although human beings are 
operating upon a plane called the physical 
world, still they are inextricably related with 
the laws of other worlds of which this is a 
part, though separated by the processes of 
sense from processes similar in nature but 
responding to a higher rate of vibration 
upon succeeding planes. 

When the time comes that man in the 
race sense forms his own conclusions, does 
his own thinking and investigating, and is 
not afraid to stand with the minority if need 
be, there will be revelations upon the earth 
plane as to the methods best fitted for the 
perfecting of processes calculated to bring 
benefits and pleasure to mankind beyond 
their present hopes. 

These methods are now in a state of 
incompletion where they are destined to 
remain indefinitely, unless the higher powers 
of man's mind are freed and he acts in 
accordance with his own inner sense of 
guidance which if followed would lead 



126 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

many laymen as well as teachers and 
philosophers to a place of understanding of 
hitherto unexplained laws of being and of 
life upon the plane of earth. 

This realization would reveal to them in 
their hearts at least that the kingdom of 
God is indeed within and whoever would 
conquer the external world in any of its 
phases must first seek the inner man for the 
true light of understanding. 

Once having attained this knowledge to 
his own complete satisfaction, he will not 
look only to external means for the help that 
is needed to bring any inventive or produc- 
tive faculty to a high point of attainment. He 
will have found the way to high achievement 
and no other way will be the right one for 
him after this revelation takes place within 
his own being. 

It is often said that the books and 
writings which come from the other side 
of life are vague and more or less futile 
in their effort to make clear to the 
dwellers of earth the actual meaning and 
significance of many of their attempted mes- 
sages of an instructive nature, and so the 
particular object of this book has been to 
deal with all subjects upon which it touches 
with as sure and exact a form of speech as 
could be used to convey the meaning in a 
simple and direct way whenever that was 
possible. 

In dealing with abstract subjects this 



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course is never possible, but in all instances 
when the matter in hand is one of objective 
character the attempt has been made and 
will continue to be, to deal with it as nearly 
as possible as if it were a fact facing the 
writer in the same limited sense which it 
must be remembered controls all functioning 
upon the earth plane and which after be- 
ing freed from the fettering influences of 
thought forces surrounding the earth plane, 
it is easy indeed to forget. 

So to resume the subject in hand, 
please let it be borne in mind that this 
effort is being made constantly through- 
out the book, and if there is a failure now 
and then to render the exact meaning in the 
most accurate way, it is because the disem- 
bodied entity from the earth standpoint 
finds all language other than his own a more 
or less difficult medium of expression and 
begs all readers to be as tolerant as possible 
in this regard in the reading or the study of 
this book. . 

To return to the subject of aviation: it has 
been noted and accepted as a fact by all who 
have given the matter almost any thought 
that the death toll among the ranks of aspir- 
ants for service in the field of navigation of 
the air, is higher than in any other phase of 
earthly activity, speaking relatively from 
the standpoint of numbers. Where there 
were a thousand recruits for the army or the 



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navy during the recent world war, there was 
one for the ranks of the aviation corps. 

The reason for this was because up to 
recent years it has been a practically un- 
known and consequently unsafe calling, 
and few indeed have there been until the call 
of patriotism sounded in the land, who had 
courage enough to venture into so insecure 
and precarious a field of endeavor. 

When the call to arms was made, how- 
ever, over pretty nearly all the earth there 
was instantaneous response. None failed 
who had the leaning towards sacrifice at 
any cost to do the utmost for their coun- 
try's need, and out of the millions of men 
who sprang to the aid of righteous warfare 
there were a few to whom the call of the 
air service duty was one which they could 
not withstand. 

Many served in this way who were con- 
fident from the beginning that it would 
mean in the most certain sense, a short 
career upon the earth plane, but a high 
record of valor within their own hearts 
and the hearts of those who loved them 
and held the honor of placing the good of 
the greatest number over and above the 
good of the individual, to be priceless. 

There were many instances of this kind 
which will never be known in any way for 
the battle, the real battle, was fought in 
secret with only the God of all men as a 
witness, but it was fought nevertheless. 



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The faithful soldier who was at that time 
true to his inner self and followed his 
highest convictions to the end, was as 
great a hero, though he came through 
unhurt with the earth span of life yet 
to run, as if his life had been required 
of him upon the field of battle. His battle 
had been won at the beginning and the re- 
sult from the standpoint of the physical self 
had no bearing upon the evolution of the 
man's progress while upon earth. 

The spiritual progress of man means noth- 
ing so much as the result of his own inner 
conflict and its effect upon his character in 
its final outcome. Thus it is that motive has 
more to do with real victory than humans 
are accustomed to attribute to it. 

Few indeed realize the meaning of a truly 
successful life upon the earth plane, for the 
signs of success as they are established and 
accepted here by all classes alike, are the on- 
ward indication of accomplishment. 

The average man or woman upon the 
earth plane can in no wise connect failure 
with the man who wears good clothing, rides 
in his own car, keeps up an establishment 
befitting his position of place and power in 
the world of affairs; yet it is often true that 
in the real and permanent sense this man is 
one of the most utter failures that the world 
has ever produced. 

Sad indeed it is to allow the mind to 
dwell upon the processes of unfoldment 



130 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

and enlightenment which he is destined to 
realize upon the pathway ahead leading at 
last to the light of understanding, if his so- 
called success has been built up at the cost 
of suffering and sacrifice on the part of those 
who by the laws controlling need and sus- 
tenance from the physical standpoint alone, 
are drawn into the sphere of operations of a 
selfish man. 

In the world of commerce or production, 
the man who thinks only of the accumulative 
end of his enterprise, and forgets the labor- 
ers who are working for him to his advan- 
tage, fails to keep the balance between cap- 
ital and labor. 

This must ever be maintained on a basis of 
equity of some kind in order to keep chaos 
out of the land and darkness from covering 
civilization from the ends of the earth to 
the ends of the earth. 

There can be no organized plan of 
cooperation, however, in this great prob- 
lem which confronts the life of men 
and of nations upon earth to-day, save 
in the intelligent cooperation of both forces, 
and at this time there is an almost equal divi- 
sion of responsibility. 

The working man is no longer con- 
tent with a reasonable wage but wants 
to batter down the whole plan of life as 
it has hitherto existed, taking the exploita- 
tion of large interests which he is in no wise 
fitted to organize or conduct, into his own 



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hands and gradually usurp the place 
which has been occupied so long by the plu- 
tocrat. This is as impossible of accomplish- 
ment as that the plutocrat should suddenly 
and unexpectedly leave his own field of en- 
deavor, and for sheer weariness of spirit 
from the bearing of his heavy load of care 
and responsibility, try for the time being to 
change places with the worker who knows 
only his daily task. 

Impossible as this may seem, he some- 
times envies the workman, freed from 
the necessity of complicated thinking pro- 
cesses, who lives his life according to his light 
in his own way, untrammeled by the chains 
of convention in the sense called social, and 
able to eat and sleep in a far more nat- 
ural and satisfying fashion, provided of 
course he is a good workman, and uses his 
wages thriftily and well. 

In the end, the result of any such disor- t 
ganized and unprofitable thinking along 
this line is destined to add confusion unto 
confusion and only the most unhappy and 
dangerous outcome can possibly follow. 

There can be no change in the relation- 
ship between labor and capital under the 
present conditions, for there must be first 
of all a fundamental change in the think- 
ing processes of the capitalist to whom 
after all falls the greater share of responsi- 
bility, for he can and does think logically 
and clearly on many subjects, and would be 



132 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

able to do so to the benefit of all concerned 
upon this most vital one of capital and labor 
confronting the world to-day, were it not 
for the fact of his own interests making him 
blind to the interests of the many. 

If it could be made apparent to even a few 
of the leading men of to-day in the earth 
world who come under this head that there 
is no such thing as independent interests of 
any kind; that the mere fact of an interre- 
lated world apparent to the least observant 
upon all sides, refutes such a thing as abso- 
lutely impossible, it might be the ground- 
work of a more constructive plan of achieve- 
ment. 

The time might be more nearly at hand 
when the first step at reorganization with a 
more fair and impartial code of by-laws could 
be established upon earth out of which good 
untold would come. It might indeed be the 
forerunner of established forms of rela- 
tionships between employer and employee, 
which would change the present state of 
hostility, for such it really is, apparent or 
veiled, which exists so widely between the 
opposing parties, into a question of allied 
interests, and the result could not fail to be 
effectual upon the race beyond the power of 
human thought to-day. 

True it is that this is a vision of the future, 
but how distant a future depends upon the 
ability of man himself to demonstrate the 
power of the cooperative spirit upon the 



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earth plane, and the power of united effort 
over and against fragmentary individual 
effort in a way which leaves the matter no 
longer a conjectural one but one of entire 
subjugation to the welfare of all mankind. 

This step has already been taken upon 
earth in detached instances but there has not 
been sufficiently widespread interest in the 
movement to make it a force of vital enough 
importance to claim the attention of people 
who are most closely and powerfully con- 
cerned in the bearing of the question upon 
their own lives. 

Until that time comes, there will be little 
change save through an occassional chan- 
nel caused by the awakening of an en- 
lightened soul upon the pathway of pro- 
gress to-day and bearing fruit in a way 
which if multiplied many thousandfold 
would turn the old world of woe and sor- 
row into one of joy and light. After this 
realization became widely accepted the man- 
ifestation of war and pestilence would van- 
ish from the face of the earth forever and 
there would then indeed be a new heaven 
and a new earth. 

This day though distant still is not un- 
dreamed-of in this era, and it would have 
been hard to conceive not so very long ago, 
for the effects of war, difficult as it may be 
to believe, are more benign than mortals 
know, and the common suffering of human- 
ity has brought about an equalizing standard 



134 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

that makes itself felt in all walks of life. 

This change is perceptible to an extent 
that cannot be over-estimated or over-val- 
ued. In turn, however, the reaction of war, 
the reaching toward joyous expression upon 
the plane of material well-being, is such that 
in the aftermath of all war there follows a 
tendency on the part of all peoples to in- 
dulge in the greatest depth of physical and 
material pleasure which they are capable of 
experiencing. 

In many instances this applies to types 
of men and women who have hitherto 
lived wholly aloof from the pleasures of 
sense from that standpoint alone, but 
who find themselves suddenly immersed 
in enjoyments of a physical nature which 
they have never courted before, and many 
times people who find themselves in this 
unwonted and unexpected situation are at 
a loss to explain to themselves the meaning 
and significance of it all. 

"Cest la guerre/' as they say over there, 
and it accounts for about all the immediate 
problems which confront men to-day and 
many which they will yet find themselves 
forced to face. 

These problems must be met before the 
trend of affairs in the lives of earth dwellers 
becomes more orderly and consequential in 
its constructive activity in all fields of labor, 
which are within the reach of every human 
being who truly aspires to high attainment 



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upon the plane of earth today as never be- 
fore. 

Never has there been so great need as now 
that the race consciousness should be ar- 
rested and its attention held until it has heard 
in the great universal sense the song of hope 
which is reaching from the spheres beyond 
man's ken to the shores of earth, in an effort 
to still the raging conflict and settle once 
and for all time the important question of 
the worth-while nature of all human life; to 
establish the knowledge of its enduring se- 
quence upon constantly changing and evolv- 
ing planes of consciousness and the reality 
of spiritual communication between the 
plane of sense and time and the one beyond 
the veil. 

Nothing can do more for the children 
of earth towards the process of their 
own enlightenment as to the purpose of life 
than the knowledge that all life is an orderly 
sequence, and that as we evolve we grow to 
the point of this realization slowly but sure- 

ly. 

We learn that life is intended to include 
from the beginning all that we have ever 
hoped for of attainment and of joy and also 
the ultimate victory over sin, disease and 
death, as they are called, and that the time 
is at hand when the processes of communi- 
cation between the two worlds will be 
known and recognized as widely and as un- 
reservedly as the process of communication 



136 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

now exists between mortals in varying 
forms about which there can be no dispute. 

This will end the chapter for to-day. It 
has been almost wholly satisfactory in the 
process of transmission. I trust the instru- 
ment will continue to lay herself at our dis- 
posal in the same quiescent way, as it 
greatly facilitates the work on the part of 
all concerned, and helps us greatly on this 
side, as we have no conflict and can in con- 
sequence put our entire energy into the mat- 
ter of conveying the transcription, as well 
and as rapidly as it is possible to do so. 

With best wishes and congratulations 
upon this morning's work. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



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XI 

Wednesday, December 31st, 1919. 

The mother speaking: 

"Dear Anne, the morning promises as 
good results as the product of yesterday's 
work, so be of good cheer and approach your 
task with new strength and confidence, and 
all will be well. 

Your loving mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear instrument, I think this morning 
we can approach the subject matter of the 
book without any preliminaries whatever. 

We spoke yesterday of the meeting place 
between the unreal subject of spiritistic in- 
vestigation and the field of endeavor called 
aviation. It is indeed of interest to us to 
realize that gradually upon the earth plane 
there is seeping through the consciousness 
of man the knowledge that he has hereto- 
fore been altogether too unapproachable 
from the standpoint of matters concerning 
so-called mystical subjects of all kinds. 

He rather wishes in a good many instances 
that he had given a little more time to this 
matter of investigation himself instead of 
having shut himself off so utterly from all 
avenues of information along a line of 



138 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

thought which without doubt is occupying 
the minds of all classes of people to-day, es- 
pecially thinkers, to an extent unbelievable 
a short time ago. 

However, it is never too late to learn, es- 
pecially in regard to a matter which looms so 
large before the public eye, and he is begin- 
ning to think that the best possible course for 
him to take in connection with this subject 
is to read up upon it and to discuss it with 
other able men and women as fitted as he, if 
not more so, to reach an intelligent conclu- 
sion as to the advisability of giving it serious 
attention. 

Soon he finds that his interest has deep- 
ened to an extent which makes all seeking 
for advice in regard to the matter unneces- 
sary and even superfluous, for he knows for 
himself that this is the truth he has been 
seeking so long, and also knows that he does 
not need counsel save that which he can find 
within his own inner consciousness, which 
is in all cases of indecision and vacillation 
the last court of appeal and resorted to in 
extremity by all the children of men. 

Men make it necessary for themselves that 
they should go here and go there, as the 
Apostle Luke was quoted in olden days as 
saying the disciples of Christianity were 
wont to do, seeking for that which was for- 
ever and eternally within their own souls; 
which could never be revealed to them until 
they realized that there was this spiritual 



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fountain of light and healing within the heart 
of man, to which they could turn in time of 
need if they but would, and that its wisdom 
and processes of enlightenment would do 
more for their welfare and unfoldment than 
any other course of action they could take. 

Few there have been, speaking in a com- 
parative sense, who have found this court 
of appeal within themselves and have taken 
counsel with it sufficiently to know that it is 
divine it its source and meant to be forever 
the guide and protector of man; that it 
always awaits his approach with an ever- 
listening attitude hoping from day to day 
for some response and recognition on the 
part of mortals to the unseen forces which 
govern and control all functioning in form 
upon all planes, answering the least whisper 
of appeal made by man to the God within 
himself, if he will hear in turn and be guided 
by its voice. 

Many indeed would claim they do not 
recognize an inner voice, that they would 
welcome a guiding power within them- 
selves to point the way to higher things, 
but this is never strictly true. 

We do hear the voice. It speaks to us in un- 
numbered ways not only in the faint prompt- 
ings of what is called conscience but by 
means of countless quick perceptions which 
if ignored are destined to become dim 
and still more dim until that time comes 
when it is not of any use for the voice of 



140 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

the highest selfhood to attempt to make; 
itself heard by the outer man. 

The external man has built up a wall of 
defense between himself and the still small 
voice which reaches to him from within, and 
he does not choose to hear, consequently 
closes every possible avenue of approach as 
far as he is able to do so and goes about his 
activities in the material world as if there 
were a distinct and definite way of separat- 
ing the two. 

If the children of men could realize 
the futility of this attitude of mind, there 
would be a great difference in the beginning 
of all earthly careers, for there would not 
then be a division in the minds of children 
at the start in regard to the physical laws as 
they are taught them, and the spiritual ones. 

About the spiritual laws so-called, most 
mortals have a vague sense as to their bear- 
ing upon life in the earth world, but there is 
so much insecurity in the probable working 
out of them that just as there are many 
churches, many creeds and many religions 
upon earth, so there is also an infinitely 
varied schedule of conduct, as far as the in- 
dividual is concerned, for if he believes this 
way, his rule of life is so and so, if another 
way, then a different rule of conduct, and so 
forth and so on. 

The illustration could be infinitely en- 
larged upon but suffice it to say that 
the average man finds some sort of a 



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spiritual code of law which fits his particular 
need, and governs himself accordingly, none 
too sure at any time that his own code is 
really operative but knowing well that he 
must have something to which to turn for 
help in time of need, when nothing but the 
laws of spirit will avail, if indeed anything 
will. 

He fears deeply that his own or any other 
code will not attain a point of conviction as 
to the evidence needed on the earth plane to 
convince men of the action of the laws of 
spirit. 

Consequently regarding it as a matter 
too indefinite and too unexplored to be 
accepted by him as a certain process in 
any sense, he goes on the old basis of re- 
specting the well-known laws of the physical 
world, content that in doing his best along 
the line of the known and the provable, he 
is doing the best for himself, his family and 
the generation in which he lives. 

This type of man is far beyond in the 
journey of life, the type of man who makes 
sport of all that cannot be evidenced to him 
by means of the five senses. For the man 
to whom all invisible influences are a closed 
book, there is a period of unfoldment 
through which he must pass according to 
the creative law of evolution, which will be 
to him a difficult, not to say painful process. 

The reason for this is that he cannot be 
taught in a way less poignant and less ef- 



142 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

factual, for it is only through the sense of 
loss and deprivation of what he has cher- 
ished most from the purely material side of 
life that he can be awakened to the truth of 
the eternal march of life, of which he is 
part. 

With this he must keep pace either of his 
own free will or else, by means of cosmic 
law forever underlying life upon all planes, 
be brought to a realization of the necessity 
for recognizing the laws of life and growth 
by a series of misfortunes so-called upon the 
plane of earth. 

These misfortunes will eventually lead 
him into the light of higher understand- 
ing which he could have reached by a 
less painful pathway had he chosen to 
respect all attitudes of mind and of religion 
while dwelling among men and not made of 
their most sacred hopes a theme for jest 
and careless bantering, ill-fitted to the sub- 
ject so vital to all men. 

Therefore it is well to keep the mind open 
and to guard as much as possible against the 
inclination felt by many fine people in all 
walks of life to criticise and to tear down 
the religions of others, who construct the 
foundation of their material existence upon 
the underlying element of faith called blind, 
because it has no justification save through 
the so-called perceptive qualities of man's 
mind. 

Who has not known of some life touch- 



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ing the divinity of Christ's life upon earth 
by means of its purity and its selflessness? 

Its faith in things unseen bearing upon 
its present plane of existence to such a de- 
gree that it was more influenced by another 
plane of life that the one in which it dwelt 
while in the physical body? Nearly every- 
one knows of some such existence, and 
sometimes more than one, and they remain 
unexplained and unfathomable to most of 
their world of contact. 

At the same time their own special world 
of contact is raised just that much by means 
of the passing touch of a life so much higher 
in its essence than the average life of man 
upon earth. 

It is never possible to estimate the value 
of the power of such a soul nor is the length 
of their sojourn upon earth in any way rel- 
ative to the depth of their effect upon human 
life. These spiritual lights which illumine 
the pathway of human progress from time 
to time are souls incarnated in the dense 
physical body for a most definite purpose, 
be their sojourn long or short. 

They are luminaries from a far removed 
sphere of being so different in its activities 
from that of earth that the plunge into dense 
matter is for them similar to the situation of 
a clergyman here upon earth, sincere in heart 
and devoted to the liberation of men from 
following vain gods, deliberately and with 
conscious purpose leaving his own field of 



144 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

endeavor to ally himself with a plane of life 
between which and his own there is little, 
if anything in common, save the underlying 
law of brotherhood; and who, carefully omit- 
ting any allusion to a larger field of vision 
works out his destiny among the deni- 
zens of a world which would be an under- 
world to him, in the way best fitted to bring 
to the realization of his associates the beauty 
of an ideal undreamed of in their present 
state of development. 

The two are closely parallel, the one 
in a conscious, the other in an uncon- 
scious sense, for it is the working of a 
merciful law, eternal in its beneficence 
that the memory of man is withheld upon 
the lesser plane of activity throughout the 
processes of growth and unfoldment in all 
spheres of life, for were it not so it would 
not be possible for the mortal, once released 
into a realm of greater power and scope to 
consent willingly to the fettering limitations 
of the flesh, and learn the lessons which can- 
not be mastered in any other way. 

Consequently the law operates in a way 
which robs him of any possibility of compar- 
ison and for the time being he looks upon this 
world as the only one which to his knowl- 
edge, he has ever inhabited. This applies to 
the people referred to above who give them- 
selves freely as a willing sacrifice for the 
purpose of the enlightenment of the race, as 
well as to those who blindly and with no 



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response in their hearts to the call of the 
voice of the inner man, are bound to dense 
physical planes by laws of their own mak- 
ing, namely their desires. 

These souls are chained to the plane of 
physical manifestation somewhere, upon 
some level of consciousness until that time 
when it no longer lures them, when they 
know that there is a fairer and more beauti- 
ful sphere of life somewhere could they only 
find it. 

At that moment when the soul of man 
turns inward for help and guidance it is 
always at hand and the voice speaks to 
him in a way about which there is no mis- 
take, and the way from that time on for him 
is changed. The gradual overcoming of the 
purely sense meaning of gratification in all 
its phases reveals to him that he can no 
longer be confined to the processes and the 
capacity for enjoyment of the physical plane 
alone. 

Once interested in this process of un- 
foldment and realizing by degrees the won- 
der and joy of life when intensified by 
the interrelation of the laws of spirit and 
those of matter so-called, man never again 
under any circumstances wishes to separate 
the two. 

He recognizes the fact that they are 
irrevocably bound together in action and 
does not seek pleasure for its own sake 
on the physical plane alone, for he knows 



146 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

that it is not to be found there but that 
it is to be found in the great underlying 
processes of spiritual development latent in 
every human soul. 

Then he has reached the place in his own 
evolution where he knows that spirit is the 
ruling force throughout the kingdoms of the 
universe and that all life resolves itself into 
the manifestation of spirit in its countless 
myriads of changing form, that spirit abides 
in whatever form is best fitted for the time 
being to carry out the divine purpose 
back of its activity, to bring to the knowl- 
edge of all men the fact that we now exist 
and have ever and ever shall exist in a spir- 
itual universe. 

He realizes that the universe is com- 
pounded of elements spiritual in their con- 
ception but material in form, that there is 
nothing but spirit varying in its endless 
formation upon different planes of expres- 
sion but ever returning in essence to the 
cause of all life for its own life and that he 
is renewed in spirit eternally though in ever- 
changing form, from one age to another 
even from everlasting to everlasting. 

The phrase everlasting to everlasting is 
used only as a relative term to denote in- 
finity, for infinity is not possible to be con- 
ceived by mind now working in form, which 
is finite in its purpose and construction. 

Infinite mind. is the all-inclusive sense of 
God-consciousness, of which the human mind 



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is a partially developed fragment, potential 
nevertheless, within itself, of infinite unfold- 
ment as man emerges from the thought 
processes which confine him to dense planes 
of manifestation and attains by processes of 
growth a larger mental and spiritual stature 
which could not have been achieved in any 
other way. 

There is none who can by taking thought 
add one cubit unto his stature but if his 
thought processes be constructive and he 
follows the light of his highest understand- 
ing as a result of them, he is bound as inevi- 
tably as the sun in its course to attain the 
revelation of still higher and higher realms 
of existence. 

He acquires this increasing stature from 
the standpoint of character and power, as he 
conforms to the law of growth and moves 
with the tide of marching humanity rather 
than against it. 

It is also true that the man who with no 
knowledge in the sense he would call actual, 
helps his neighbor in his journey through life 
at every turn without understanding as to 
the motive which actuates him, but realizing 
the fact that this way is the best way for 
him, vaguely knows that he is blessed; that 
when he has lightened his brother's load even 
though for the time being he has apparentry 
impoverished himself, there comes out of 
the friendly deed a sense of peace and of 



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attainment too difficult to analyze, but which 
is nevertheless most real. 

In many instances a man makes the effort 
in every possible direction to help his own 
world of contact and asks no questions con- 
cerning the matter in any way, of any one, 
not even himself. He follows a truly blind 
impulse but it is an ennobling one, and one 
which has very significant bearing upon the 
length of time it takes him to learn by means 
of his passage through dense matter what 
universality really means. 

Once having learned this great lesson, 
it is so inclusive in its illumination as 
to the meaning of other laws of being 
that usually this man's life upon the 
planes of dense matter is a less prolonged 
and difficult process from the standpoint of 
supply. 

This means in other words that the man 
who learns that in giving he is not himself 
impoverished has gone far on the road to- 
wards realization that all life is supported 
by means of spiritual abundance, even 
though that term must be translated into the 
term material abundance in order to relate 
to the world of affairs called the earth world. 

When any man reaches the place upon his 
own pathway where he realizes that supply 
in some way, unknown and indefinite though 
it may seem to him, does come from God, 
that the wants of men are in truth met by 
means of the operation of law of which they 



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know but little as yet, but which they recog- 
nize in its daily relation to earthly activities, 
then indeed he has started on the true path 
of progress. 

This realization will eventually bring 
him under the law of adjustment which 
will fill his need at the right moment and he 
will also know that faith is so great a factor 
in the working out of spiritual law that it is 
necessary to believe first before the full 
manifestation of the law of demand and 
supply can be realized in all its truth and 
beauty. 

Nothing needs to stand in the way of 
man's realization of this great truth of 
being, and nothing does save the fact of his 
own intense desire to demonstrate upon the 
plane of sense above all else the matter of 
supply and sustenance in his own particular 
way. 

He wishes to do this exactly as he has 
always felt it should be done and as his 
fathers did before him, garnering where he 
may, saving by means of hardship and 
through fear, which is instilled in the heart 
from earliest childhood that one day poverty 
may overtake him and that he may become 
what is called a dependent upon earth to- 
day, and which he would rather die than be- 
come. This also goes to prove the basis upon 
which so-called charitable institutions are 
founded for the most part upon the plane 
of earth. 



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Consequently he trusts no power save that 
of which he is himself certain, namely, the 
power of his hands or of his brain. He allots 
to the different departments of life to the 
best of his ability their rightful share in 
claiming his attention. He then settles down 
to the established facts of life without pro- 
test or any great degree of wonder that man 
should be forever harassed as to the where- 
withal to sustain physical life in an orderly 
and seemly fashion, but accepts it as inevit- 
able that there must be numberless poor, a 
sizable class called the middle class and a 
few belonging to the class of the so-called 
rich. 

This fallacy in its effect upon the lives of 
men is perhaps more pernicious than any 
other accepted fetter, which handicaps the 
progress of man from the beginning of 
earth life to the end. 

If it could be realized by all men in 
any degree as fully and as generally as 
it is known and understood by the body 
of Christian Scientists on earth to-day — 
this process of change from a world of the 
old consciousness of hard earned necessities, 
based upon the effort of the hand or brain 
alone, to the new consciousness of the bene- 
ficent law of demand and supply it would 
mean a revolution in the adjustment of all 
human affairs. 

It could not fail to make all warfare and 
chaos coming out of labor crises an impossi- 



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bility, and the relative needs of the human 
family would be met in a way that would do 
far more towards proving to the children of 
men that spiritual laws do indeed rule the 
universe, than any amount of teaching which 
could be given to the individual follower by 
any known means. 

This does not for a moment mean that 
effort and labor would cease from the earth 
and cessation from all activities ensue as a 
natural result, far from it. Activity would 
be stimulated and increased just in the pro- 
portion that the individual had reason to 
believe that supply was sufficient for all 
men; that the very fact of belief in a law 
superior to the laws under which the earth 
world has lived heretofore for so many cen- 
turies, was a factor in all human achieve- 
ment of any kind and in nothing so much 
as the releasing of higher spiritual forces 
which are reaching the earth plane at this 
time with greater power than ever before 
in the history of man. 

Achievement would be greatly intensified 
by the knowledge of these laws waiting only 
to be allowed to act upon the evolving con- 
sciousness of man, if he will let himself be 
helped out of the realm of materialism and 
unbelief, and know that the Father wishes 
to give to his children the kingdom of plenty. 

He knoweth that we have need of all 
these things and that if we will begin a 
new way of thinking and of making our- 



152 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

selves receptive in connection with these 
great questions so vitally at stake to-day, 
we will realize by degrees that by means of 
strengthened faith the children of earth will 
come under the operation of the beneficent 
law of supply. 

The world will waken to a voice which 
has hitherto cried in the wilderness indeed 
saying "Hearken unto me, children of men; 
in the storehouse of the Father of all men is 
supply for the sustenance of all his manifest- 
ations in form, even unto the smallest known 
form of life," if the children of men will 
only listen to the voice of pleading to-day 
and cease to disregard the rights and priv- 
ileges of others in the pursuit of their own 
to such an extent that as a result there is 
hardly an unbroken family circle to be found 
the world round on account of the devasta- 
tion of war. 

Think for a moment of the blood that 
has been spilled, of the time that has 
been lost and of the mighty army of re- 
cruits that passed into the realm of the 
unknown, as you believe it to be, at the call 
of patriotism, to champion a cause which 
stood for eternal progress and freedom of 
the soul of man and think for a moment of 
its accompanying waste. It is impossible to 
fathom so profound a calculation as this 
would be so it is useless to attempt it. 

Suffice it to say that the world waste in 
the processes of war covering the entire 



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period of recent conflict, would have kept 
another world similar to the earth world in 
its needs and its evolution, in supply suffi- 
cient for the ample care of all its inhabitants 
for a quarter of a century. 

This includes in a comprehensive sense, 
the reconstructive period which is to follow, 
and all its accompanying demands, taking 
from the processes of constructive labor 
which would have been existent upon the 
earth plane to-day in corresponding measure 
had there been no world war. 

It is true that before the war there 
was want in the world, there will ever 
be want until the sense of the brotherhood 
of men claims first place in the hearts of 
earth dwellers, until they know that whereas 
there can never be an equal distribution of 
property in the radical sense advocated by 
rash and unbalanced agitators upon the earth 
plane at this time on account of the unequal 
development of men dwelling upon a given 
plane at a given time, still there could be 
great progress made along the line of intel- 
ligent cooperation, in regard to the much 
discussed law called the law of supply and 
demand. 

This could be accomplished by the volun- 
tary action of foremost leaders of thought 
and of great movements upon earth from 
the human standpoint, which would prove 
to the entire satisfaction of the poorer 
classes that capital was not afraid to try 



154 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

out the processes of cooperation which are 
in all cases the forerunners of the release of 
still higher spiritual laws of life upon all 
planes. 

Once cooperation is established between 
labor and capitol upon earth, the rest 
will follow as the night the day. Labor will 
not be outdone by capital in the spirit which 
induced the cooperative method into action 
and it will respond in kind. 

This is a law of life,, not widely under- 
stood upon earth as yet but when labor is 
convinced that the capitalist is sincere in his 
search for a common meeting place between 
them and the cooperative spirit extends to 
the masses of workers hitherto divorced in 
their viewpoints and standing against each 
other, it would follow that the plan called co- 
operative would be adopted in other and les- 
ser phases of life, to an extent which would 
soon prove whether the law of plenty and of 
supply was a fallacy or a most significant 
factor in human life. 

Time will prove this truth also, as it 
proves all other truths. That is all for this 
morning. This has been a long transcrip- 
tion and our instrument is weary. I thank 
you. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



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XII 

New Year's Day, January 1st, 1920. 

The Mother speaking: 

"Dear Anne, it is indeed a happy New 
Year and one that will be long remembered 
upon the earth plane as marking the differ- 
ence between the old order and the new. 
Goodbye, dear. 

Your loving mother, 

Emma." 

"Dear instrument, it is with joy indeed 
that we come to you this morning renewed 
in purpose and strengthened in our con- 
fidence that this work shall be fully com- 
pleted through your hand in a comparatively 
short space of time and that there will be 
no great delay in its consequent production. 

The title of the book we will give to you 
soon, as it will make clear to you in concise 
form the exact meaning and purpose which 
the contents of the book are intended to con- 
vey. This will accompany the last trans- 
scription or chapter of the book, which is at 
hand. 

When that day comes we will give 
you the necessary instructions as to what 
steps to take in regard to its publication and 
how to go about it as nearly as possible. 



156 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

Do not think that because of our larger 
vision on this side of the veil we overestimate 
the value that such literature as this is 
going to have upon the earth plane, for 
we know better than it is possible for mor- 
tals to know how hungry the human heart 
is for the truth concerning immortality, 
and we know that the tide cannot be 
stayed; that one way or another man is 
bound to persist in his search until the way 
is shown and he no longer works out his 
destiny blindfolded but illumined with the 
light of marvelous understanding. 

We know the day is coming when he will 
enter into his birthright as a child of the 
realm henceforth and forever more unbound 
by the fetters of sense and materialism and 
released upon a plane of activity intensified 
by his knowledge of the spiritual nature of 
his being. 

This will change the old world of care 
and anxiety and unbelief into one of 
radiance and faith and the whole plan of life 
upon the earth plane will be from that time 
on one of joy instead of weeping, of con- 
struction instead of destruction and of song 
without sadness. 

Man will know that he is redeemed 
through his own belief in the reality of 
spirit and of the tenderness and loving 
kindness of his Maker, the fountain of 
all life, called God by the children of men 
because they must name some power which 



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is creative in action and powerful enough 
to cause life by a term expressing as best 
they may their own conception of deity. 
Now to the book. 

We left the transcription yesterday at the 
point of discussion in regard to the cost to 
man of the reconstruction of old-world 
ideals in material form in a way that could 
not fail to rob constructive present day activ- 
ities, had there been no world war, of their 
significance in a large sense for the next fifty 
years or thereabouts. 

This is a conservative estimate for the ef- 
fects of world waste so devastating and so 
vast in area as that which has actually oc- 
curred within the last five years are quite 
incalculable from any standpoint so all es- 
timates must necessarily be conjectural. 

However, it is safe to say that half 
a century must surely pass before there 
will be upon the earth plane working along 
the same laws of progress which have 
hitherto been operative a generation living 
freely and fully restored to a basis of life 
which obligates it no longer to the payment 
of accumulated debts of warfare in any way. 

The people even in that generation would 
have the handicap throughout their lives of 
the conflict still existing upon the old plane 
of thinking between the adherents of pre- 
paredness and the force opposing it, in a 
measure which would be necessarily bound 



158 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

to affect their freedom, their resources and 
their peace of mind. 

Freedom cannot be attained unless in the 
meantime there is established upon earth 
some sort of a realization that the whole 
system is wrong, that there can never be a 
so-called successful issue of war; that war- 
fare in itself is a deadly enemy to civiliza- 
tion, that it is the relic of barbarism and the 
most pronounced recurrence upon earth of 
testimony from the standpoint called evi- 
dential as to the origin of the species. 

It is incalculably destined to withhold the 
spirit which will eventually actuate all men 
upon this plane to a degree that will render 
arms a superfluous possession and one which 
retards progress in a way fitted only for pur- 
poses long since obsolete to man. The word 
obsolete is used advisedly. 

The time will come when firearms as they 
are called at this time will be relics of a by- 
gone age and people will marvel at them 
upon seeing them in museums and places 
where exhibits of a nature intended to en- 
lighten the public as to the customs of a past 
race, are displayed. 

It will not be uncommon in ages yet 
to come, to find actual disbelief in this 
regard on the part of the inhabitants of 
a friendly cooperative world, functioning 
in a way impossible of conception at 
this time and an attitude of question- 
ing as to the authenticity of such re- 



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ports concerning the relations of men upon 
earth in any age. 

But a condition of this kind is indeed 
remote at this day and even humorous 
to many who under no circumstances 
could conceive the relationship of men 
and women upon the physical plane of 
existence to be other than one of conflict. 
Nevertheless that age is destined to arrive 
at some future day regardless of how far in 
the future its advent may be but this stage 
of development save from the standpoint of 
interest and of conjectural discussion is not 
one which has immediate bearing upon our 
subject. 

The subject which is immediately at hand 
and which interests us vitally on both sides 
of the veil, is how to reveal to the present 
bruised and bleeding hearts of men of all 
nations upon earth to-day, just how to begin 
the work of regeneration and reconstruction 
in the realm of spiritual achievement which 
will set in motion laws which have been 
hitherto unreleased by the thought processes 
of man. 

The most important question is how to 
make it possible for a sufficient number 
of workers to operate from this plane so 
that the whole world will look upon the sub- 
ject of the eternal purpose and aim of life 
as one upon all planes and also make men 
realize fully that truth is an open book to 
those who truly seek its revelation. 



160 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

No longer need the earth race stay in its 
old habits of thought, bound by the fear of 
death and the vicissitudes not to say futility 
of all earthly achievement, but it may know 
that all life is related so closely that we have 
only to open the door between the worlds 
ourselves to know that there is no barrier 
and no closing off of the relationship between 
those embodied in the form of so-called flesh 
and those embodied in a higher form of 
manifestation. 

Mortals may know if they so desire that 
there is no reason whatever that whoever 
aspires to the place of transmitter between 
the two planes cannot attain it securely and 
permanently, provided he is willing to accept 
the terms upon which so high a calling is 
necessarily based. Provided also that he 
follows out these conditions exactly, with 
implicit faith that they will bring him into a 
realm of understanding and of light which 
he has previously regarded as fatuous and 
impossible while still walking the pathway 
of earth handicapped as he thinks by the 
garment of the dense physical body. 

Herein lies the distinct element of faith 
without which nothing is attained which is of 
great and enduring value to the race and the 
seeker for truth must bear this ever in mind. 
The Master said during his pilgrimage upon 
earth "By faith ye shall remove mountains" ; 
He also said, "Greater works than I do, ye 
shall do." The time is at hand when many of 



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the followers of Christ will be called upon 
to demonstrate their real faith in the teach- 
ings of Christianity, for such are the under- 
lying basic laws of the manifold forms of be- 
lief in the Master's teachings upon earth that 
the groundwork of them all, whatever else 
may be added, is faith. 

Without faith there can be in a so-called 
material world, no definite purpose in pur- 
suing the study of the teachings of any reli- 
gion for it is the corner stone of construc- 
tion and without it nothing can be erected 
which will not fall in time. 

Nothing can come out of the attempt to 
disqualify faith, which has endured through 
endless ag*es of persecution and rejection, to 
the point where the tide of race conscious- 
ness having suffered much and wearying of 
the old processes of life under the varying 
vicissitudes of sin, disease and so-called 
death upon the plane of earth, rises superior 
to all inimical thought force which obstructs 
its headway and proves to a doubting world 
that life does survive bodily death: which 
proves also that what we call the individual 
in form upon earth still inhabits, in a form 
impossible to perceive on account of its in- 
creased vibration, a world interpenetrating 
and surrounding the one called earth in a 
way which makes communication a simple 
and a natural thing. 

This attainment is possible to all who 
accede to the provisions made by those wha 



162 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

have been released into a larger field of con- 
sciousness and wider vision and who are 
able and eager to help the cause as much as 
it is possible to do so in a secure and wholly 
rational way. The first requisite of all as- 
pirants, as has been already stated, is faith. 
This is the starting point upon which all else 
depends. 

If a mental experimenter, pure and 
simple, attempts to explore a field of en- 
deavor unthinkable and impossible of cre- 
dence under any circumstances, and to 
enter the ranks of seekers after spiritistic 
phenomena, but not necessarily spiritual 
truth, it would be better far to let the sub- 
ject wholly alone. To him and only to him is 
there any danger of conflict which might 
arise between the forces of construction 
working on this side for the betterment of 
man in every way and the destructive forces 
known as the forces of evil in the earth 
world. 

This expression, constructive and de- 
structive forces, is a relative term when 
looked upon from the standpoint of the unity 
of all force in the sense of its actual out- 
come. 

They must nevertheless be designated, 
for the purposes of illustration, by the 
terms constructive and destructive for 
the reason that they have been necessary 
from the beginning of so-called creation to 
produce an evolving world. They have been 



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necessary in order that the creative energy 
centered in man's inner being should work 
out by means of apparently opposing forces 
the method and plan of achievement which 
could not have been his without the element 
of choice. Free will and the ability to choose 
must consist in the existence of two forms 
of expression, different in nature else the 
term choice would be rendered futile, not to 
say senseless. 

Without the so-called constructive and 
destructive forces of life, progress would be 
impossible and the strata of all existence, 
provided there could be any under such con- 
ditions, a dead level which would be of little 
or no value to men possessed of the immortal 
birthright which is called creative energy. 
True it is that the plan of creation is a more 
orderly and well advised sequence than the 
mind of man in any stage of evolution can 
compass. 

It is also true that were it not for 
the few who bear the torch in all ages, the 
darkness which now covers the earth from 
our point of vision would be far more dense. 
The flickering rays that are sent out here 
and there, which we can see penetrating the 
shadows, are impossible to estimate in their 
value to the race and without them the pro- 
gress of human development would have 
been held back many centuries of time. 

Weary years of the same process of 
thought which have brought about the 



164 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

world-wide predicament of man to-day 
would have intervened had not the faith- 
ful clung to their purpose and to their 
trust in a just and benign God in spite 
of all external evidences of chaos and 
accident, and the world has need to thank 
these toilers in the pioneering pathway of 
human progress in all ages. 

Many of the children of earth are in- 
clined to scoff at the words of wisdom which 
proceed often indeed from sources most un- 
expected, and too many people are hampered 
and have always been by the necessity of 
having truth revealed to them in properly 
appointed form, else it is indeed, not truth 
to them. 

This is one of the saddest of all the falla- 
cies of earth, the labelling process for some 
reason considered authentic and of distinct- 
ive value in the minds of the so-called best 
people, of all truth in its bearing upon their 
own personal lives. Many accept truth for 
others which they do not accept for them- 
selves. 

For instance, it is often said upon the earth 
plane by a type of man or woman who lays 
high claim to the possession of an open mind, 
that if people get pleasure or comfort from 
the acceptance of Christian Science or even 
Spiritualism, as to that matter, they have 
nothing whatever to say in objection, for it 
is really a personal matter and one to be de- 
cided in all cases by the individual. There 



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can be no connection in their minds between 
the underlying current of truth which con- 
stitutes the basis of religions or philosophies 
of every kind and their own, for this reason; 
that in their own minds their conception of 
truth is a separate and distinct thing, and 
whereas it may not necessarily be truth to 
others it is truth to them individually, and 
they ask no one to accept it any more than 
they wish others to ask them to accept an 
alien doctrine of any kind. 

It is a more or less broad standpoint ac- 
cepted by countless thousands upon earth 
and having strong points in its favor but 
nevertheless lacking the kernel of truth; in 
other words realization that all truth is the 
same. Truth cannot war with itself. It un- 
derlies fundamentally all religions in all their 
varying forms of expression and no truth is 
separated from the whole save in its form of 
manifestation. The outward form of mani- 
festation is the one thing of least conse- 
quence in the final attainment of the unity 
of all races, all creeds, and all national or- 
ganizations, which is one day destined to 
become established upon earth. 

Even in the advanced ranks of thinkers 
known as Christian Scientists upon the 
earth plane, this mistake of labelling truth 
is sometimes made and thereby numerous 
converts are lost from time to time. 

This is occasioned by the attitude which 
is at times evidenced by teachers all un- 



166 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

knowingly in practically every instance, in- 
dicating that the truth revealed to them as a 
body, organized more efficiently than any 
other upon earth to-day from the standpoint 
of its voluntary support, is the ultimate goal 
of all men in future ages. It is sometimes 
claimed that the sooner the children of men 
now living in the present generation come 
into this knowledge, the better it will be 
not only for them but for the entire race in 
all its phases of unfoldment. 

"Ultimate" truth as it is presented upon 
the human plane though having a ground- 
work of sincerity and a partial basis in 
truth is never final or really ultimate. It 
cannot be for the reason that man is in the 
beginning of his spiritual unfoldment in the 
great sense in which it is being conceived 
upon earth to-day, and no one method of pre- 
sentation however advanced its teachings 
may be over and against the old ways of 
thinking and of human relationships, can 
possess full realization of truth as a whole. 

In succeeding planes of evolution, beyond 
the possibility of calculation, there is only 
a steadily increasing knowledge of the whole 
as we progress, for now we see through a 
glass darkly but then face to face. 

This truism does not apply to the plane 
of the earth world alone, but to countless 
succeeding planes as well. 

Now then to carry this thought a little 
further; when the children of men come to 



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the place in their unfoldment where they 
know that there are no special dispensations, 
that we all come under the same immutable 
laws of change and of progress, then they 
realize with increasing conviction that truth 
is an established factor, not relative but ab- 
solute. 

They learn that its revelation is par- 
tial and undeveloped as yet, but that it 
nevertheless is established and known 
from the beginning to the creative force 
which we call God, which was, is now and 
ever shall be. They realize little by little 
that the following of truth leads the chil- 
dren of men in all worlds according as they 
turn towards it in sincerity, to more life, 
more light and far greater capacity for en- 
joyment than they have ever known until 
they learn the truth about truth for them- 
selves. 

In no other way can any mortal soul be 
convinced of immortality or of the actual 
working out upon the physical plane of the 
laws which are called spiritual by way of 
distinguishing them from what to human 
consciousness is purely material. 

The way to light and understanding rests 
entirely with the individual as to what path- 
way he will choose; whether he will take the 
long, hard way of development through the 
processes of trying out all known material or 
physical means to reach a more secure basis 
of content, by means of the events and vary- 



168 THE TWO WORLDo uF ATTRACTION 

ing calamities of earth life, from the stand- 
point of sense, or whether he will choose the 
swifter process of evolution, through the 
acceptance of the guiding power within the 
heart of man. 

In spite of constant rejection and turn- 
ing away on the part of millions of 
souls upon earth's pathway, this power will 
not be repelled. It calls recurringly and un- 
tiringly to the hungry heart and bids man 
listen to himself, his own best self, never 
wholly silenced under any condition of life, 
which would seem to render its voice un- 
heard or even forever stilled. 

It rises over and over again above the 
sound of all other human conflict until finally 
each and every child of earth shall waken 
to the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven 
within, and then indeed shall there be a new 
day and a new earth, and the inhabitants of 
all worlds will enter the kingdom of 
brotherhood and of universality in its 
true sense as never before. The attain- 
ment of all life in its potential sense will be 
added to by this new conception of brother- 
hood in a measure that cannot be realized 
in the present state of man's consciousness 
upon earth to-day. This will finish the chap- 
ter for this morning. 

As we go on in this work, our instrument 
is learning to still the objective mind more 
and more and the day will come, I think, 
when subjects of a most abstract nature will 



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be possible of transmission through her hand. 
In the meantime I imagine she considers the 
subject matter in hand abstract enough and 
so do we, at any rate entirely so for the 
purpose destined for this particular volume 
upon earth to-day. 
I thank you. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



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XIII 

Friday, January 2nd, 1920. 
The mother speaking: 

"Anne dear, all is well, let not your 
thoughts be troubled. You are constantly 
gaining in strength and there will be a 
time of leisure ahead in which we can speak 
of many things which will help clear up the 
matter of values upon the earth plane. Till 
then keep on as you are now, serene in mind 
and confident that all is working on this side 
of the veil as well as on yours, for the good 
of all. 

Good bye dear, 

Mother Emma." 

"Dear Instrument, We approach our task 
this morning with redoubled interest and en- 
thusiasm for the reason that the completion 
of the book is a matter of which we are 
assured and it is now only a question of ac- 
quiring the right publishers for the pre- 
sentation of it in the most approved way, to 
enable it to reach the greatest number of 
people in the shortest space of time. 

Yesterday we were intimating towards 
the end of the chapter that there were not 
at this time upon the earth plane the mani- 
festations of brotherly love which, as a mat- 



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ter of fact were noticeably increasing before 
the war, but that is not quite the idea that 
is meant to be conveyed, in making state- 
ments as to the willingness in this age of 
desperate methods, to further the well-being 
of the individual at any cost. 

This, however, is intended to be made 
clear: that while the willing spirit is be- 
ing manifested upon all sides in special 
instances to take advantage of man's 
need and his blindness at this time, still 
there is in the world to-day an increas- 
ing number of men and women who have 
been awakened to some extent to the true 
meaning of brotherhood. There was no such 
concept of the human family in the universal 
sense before the war as there is now. 

No one, however poor and destitute he may 
be, is outside the pale of human sympathy 
and help, whereas before the war, people 
who gave lavishly of their substance and 
even went so far as to support institu- 
tions unknown in many cases save to the 
trustees and lawyers, to whom such 
knowledge was necessary, had never during 
the entire period of their lives up to the be- 
ginning of the war in Europe actually done 
things themselves which were more or less 
irksome to them. 

For example, there were numberless cases 
of women pinning themselves down to hours 
of concentrated labor in order that some 
man in France might live ; that he might pos- 



172 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

sibly survive his wounds by means of the 
ability of the surgeon or nurse in attendance 
to work quickly and to have always at hand 
the rolls of cotton and the bandages which 
go towards making the fight for life a more 
successful one. 

In many instances this supply proved 
to be the means and the only means of 
allaying suffering otherwise too great to 
be borne, and which would in itself 
have hastened the end of earth life, whereas 
a bandage of cotton or of gauze suited to 
the purpose, made recovery possible. Tens 
and tens of thousands of women everywhere 
during the last five years have put away the 
thought of self as never before. 

They have grown in grace and beauty of 
spirit for the reason of having done this 
thing and now there has come as a result, a 
ray of flickering light at least to the multi- 
tude of workers for humanity, enlightening 
them upon this whole question of interre- 
lated interests. 

The time is not far distant when the 
man or woman who once considered his 
world a thing apart from the great 
masses of humanity whose pursuits and 
habits of life were a thing removed indeed 
from his own, will come to a sense of realiza- 
tion that in some magical sense hitherto not 
understood in any measure, all life is one. 
The realization will grow that through life, 
with its constantly changing tide of affairs 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 173 

and events among all so-called classes, there 
is a thread which cannot be cut or broken, 
no matter what attempts are made in that 
direction; that there is some law felt blindly 
to be true by all men at times during their 
earth life which remains for ever active in 
its working towards the reconstruction of 
the race upon a united basis rather than a 
separated one. 

The result of this thinking has been 
far beyond what is known in a general 
sense upon earth to-day for the simple 
reason that few people acknowledge it 
even to themselves. Although they vaguely 
realize its truth they still cling to the old 
order, much as kings and queens who now 
find their crowns and erstwhile glory a 
somewhat superfluous possession in the pres- 
ent age of growing democracy, are well 
aware that the age will come upon earth 
when it will not be a thing to be desired to 
wear a crown or boast of heraldry and pomp 
and power. 

They know that this age will pass and 
something finer and far more satisfying to 
the heart of man will take its place. In the 
meantime however, the growth of indivi- 
duals and of nations will have had to keep 
pace with the ever-increasing beauty of the 
ideals of the race, else they will find so 
great a discrepancy between their concep- 
tions of a new government and the actual 



174 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

processes of government that only conflict 
and disappointment will follow. 

There can be no high form of government 
in control of the affairs of any nation with- 
out high attainment and concentrated pur- 
pose on the part of its rulers to give to the 
people who have nominated them to their 
office the best they know. 

This code of proceedings should be re- 
quired of men who are willing and glad 
to put the good of the many before the good 
of the individual, and when the day comes 
that national officials look upon this matter 
from such a standpoint of obligation, there 
will be upon earth a sublimity of purpose and 
of joyous achievement on the part of mor- 
tals that would seem at this time too vague 
and unreal to be considered by the average 
man as even a possible dream of the far-dis- 
tant future. 

Such, however, would be the Utopian 
government of any nation upon earth to-day 
were it possible to maintain for even one 
year's time a group of men bearing in their 
hands and upon their shoulders the responsi- 
bility of the nation's affairs, who were each 
and all of them content for the time being 
at least to look upon all matters of state as 
questions about which they were personally 
disinterested. 

The result of such a state of govern- 
ment would do more towards ending 
warfare and the fear of warfare upon earth 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 175 

than any other one factor in the influence 
upon the affairs of men in the next century. 

Water cannot rise above its level and if in 
the management of large affairs and the 
conflicting rights of empires and nations, 
those who are supposed to represent the 
great body of citizens whom they serve, are 
divided in mind and constantly in a state of 
warfare among themselves, it requires little 
reasoning to see that here as in the spiritual 
sense the quotation "As above so below" 
holds equally good, for nations generally 
speaking do not excel their representatives. 

No nation can emerge triumphantly from 
the horrors and the blood-stained battlefields 
of war if it proceeds to war in its own partic- 
ular field of activity, especially when the 
interests of so many governments are con- 
cerned, that there can be no protection from 
outside, without a corresponding condition 
of unity within. 

This passage may seem to some of the 
readers of this book as being particu- 
larly applicable to the condition of af- 
fairs in this country at this time but that 
is not by any means the idea which it is in- 
tended to convey. It is a general truth ap- 
plicable to all men and nations in all ages, 
and seeming at this time to adjust itself 
to the fitting of many needs not only in 
connection with large affairs of state and 
international importance but also to count- 
less lesser affairs pertaining to the lives of 



176 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

individuals living on the same old earth 
which they inhabited before the war; not, 
however, being in their own minds at 
least the same people they were before en- 
tering the activities which gave them a 
glimpse of a world they had not believed pos- 
sible and which once having seen they are 
unwilling to relinquish. 

Here it is interesting to note the fact that 
there are countless women who, before the 
world-war thought only of the interests 
which had to do with the passing hour, and 
who are now vitally interested in matters 
which are of moment to others in a specific 
or even a general sense. 

In some cases women lacking special 
training along any given line have gone 
out of their way to find some occupa- 
tion which would engage at least part 
of their attention, as the mere thought 
of returning to the old, ineffectual, aim- 
less habits of life which at one time were 
all they knew, becomes abhorrent to them. 
They grasp at anything which promises to 
be a possible outlet for their abilities in 
some constructive way and the rest follows 
naturally, a gradual unf oldment and develop- 
ment in the realm of spiritual force. 

Sooner or later, the novice in the world of 
aspiration to the field of worth-while en- 
deavor reaches a place of revelation which is 
obtained only by her seeking for the truth 
of life and the mystery of being, in a way 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 177 

which has opened the door of understanding 
for her for all time. 

She finds she has only to explore for 
herself the beauty and the orderliness of 
life if she cares sufficiently to do so, to find 
out the causes for the interrelation of life 
and of interests, which to her coming as they 
did after years of misconception of the 
matter, seem quite like a personal dis- 
covery and one which has in it countless 
blessings both for herself and the world of 
contact in which she now moves. 

Consequently there can never be on the 
path of an aspirant for conclusive evidence 
as to the unity of life and its oneness of pur- 
pose any more doubt as to which way leads 
to peace and happiness and lasting joy, for 
she has found the road to understanding for 
herself. 

Nothing could again make a comparison 
other than unfavorable between the two 
pathways of life from that time on, so that 
each convert from the old detached way of 
thinking to the new one embodying so much 
that makes life beautiful and useful, be- 
comes convinced that she in turn must try 
to assimilate the truth of what she has 
learned through the ravages and miseries of 
war in order that her life may reflect at least 
a little of her own inner joy, and radiate to 
others something of her newly-acquired 
light. 

Little by little, she realizes that she 



178 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

must pass on that which makes of all life a 
thing to be approached with thankfulness for 
our own part in it, whatever it may be, and 
makes more and more wonderful the journey 
of life as it advances, rather than a matter 
of declining power after the age of the indi- 
vidual upon earth has passed the middle 
mark of fifty. 

It is a great factor in the life of the human 
family, this taking of one's self and one's 
world so seriously and so impressively that 
at times it seems as if association in the earth 
world is a matter of such fine discrimination 
that it must be a wearisome and a fettering 
task to be always able to determine whether 
the neighbor or the new acquaintance is 
really eligible to the inner circle of one's 
social sanctuary or not. 

And it seems more than reasonable to 
believe that countless people do find these 
boundaries which they have fixed for 
themselves hampering to a degree which 
makes them at times envy the man or 
woman born into the middle or even 
lower classes, so-called, where at least the 
freedom of the individual is not trammeled 
in this way. 

Who has not witnessed upon earth sad 
instances of parting on account of the dif- 
ference in their environment, between chil- 
dren or even people of adult age who, hav- 
ing become by means of some of the afore- 
mentioned interrelated interests of life, at- 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 179 

tached to each other, are occasioned bitter 
suffering? Who has not witnessed this as 
a result of a wholly unnecessary process 
of man's mind which need not add to the 
sum total of woe upon earth were it only 
possible to make clear this significant truth 
to all the children of man that there are no 
elect in God's kingdom? 

We are what we are by reason of our 
own efforts, nothing more nothing less 
and the sooner the human family can 
understand that by elevating others we 
elevate ourselves, and by belittling or de- 
grading any human creature we also de- 
grade ourselves, it will be possible to bring 
about a condition of mind which will go far 
towards establishing true brotherhood upon 
earth. 

This realization will also do more for 
the increase of individual development 
than perhaps any other one factor in human 
life could possibly do at the present state 
of man's consciousness from the standpoint 
of the race. 

The law working in this way would soon 
reveal to men that the hitherto despised 
method of association with the children of 
men from a broad democratic standpoint was 
the one and the only one by which it is ever 
possible to truly elevate the individual. 

However, this truth is recognized so dimly 
and so intermittently is it put into practice 
even when recognized, that it seems almost 



180 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

impossible of achievement to the workers on 
the earth plane who realize the depth and 
the purpose of the movement towards de- 
mocracy, which has so many fanatical divi- 
sions that the very zeal of its supporters 
hurts the cause far more than it helps it on. 

Socialists and even anarchists through- 
out history, in a mistaken way to be sure, 
have dreamed about a new order, a new dis- 
tribution of values impossible beyond ques- 
tion but nevertheless based upon the same 
foundational idea as that of union on the 
part of all nations, which is the point at this 
time upon which the history of the world 
will turn. It is often misguided, this instinct 
towards the universal movement which in 
some way is attracting attention to itself all 
over the world, but it is nevertheless the 
same in essence in all its forms, and it will 
not be put down in such a way that it will 
not rise again. 

For that reason, if for no other, it is 
wise for all classes and conditions of 
men in all walks of life to listen and to 
set about finding a way of attaining the 
desired results bearing directly upon the 
welfare of all men, which will not be detri- 
mental and occasion great loss and conse- 
quent suffering to countless members of the 
so-called classes. 

Those who stand for special rights 
and privileges must either prove and 
protect them by force or adjust from 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 181 

a more rational and equitable basis of 
action the rights of the masses of people 
awakened to-day who are struggling to 
express themselves in a way not removed 
from other classes in its actual significance 
but differing greatly from higher methods 
in bringing about a unified purpose among 
men. 

The only way it is possible to obtain 
results which will be lasting and which will 
be satisfying to all parties is for the classes 
who are distinguished upon earth as the 
upper classes to offer of their own free will, 
not to make concessions to the work- 
ing classes from the standpoint of the 
redistribution of property by any means but 
to realize that the force they have been deal- 
ing with called the working classes, is a 
force to be reckoned with indeed at some 
time in some age, and that these people so 
removed exteriorly from the world of the 
classes, are just the same potentially as 
themselves. 

The classes so-called must some time real- 
ize that there is no radical difference what- 
ever between men save in the use they have 
made of their faculties and the purposes 
which they have served; how long and to 
how great an extent they have served the 
purposes of construction or how long and to 
how great an extent they have served the 
purposes of destruction, these are the things 
which count. 



182 THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 

If a man thinks that because he is 
born into the earth world in an environment 
of wealth and protection that he is immune 
from any law throughout the working of 
God's universe, he has much to learn and 
much indeed could be spared him were he 
able to acquire some of the most essential 
lessons while he is still walking the pathway 
of life upon earth. 

There could be no greater boon to human 
beings at this time than the knowledge that 
the justice of God fills all space, all worlds, 
and all manifestations of his creative force; 
that all individual centres of being called 
entities upon all planes of life, come under 
the working of this law. 

The human family must one day learn 
that there is no escape from eventually 
facing the truth of life and of being. 
The longer the process is deferred, the 
harder and the more severe the methods 
to engage the attention of men and fasten 
it for their own good upon matters pertain- 
ing to spiritual unfoldment and advance- 
ment. 

This is one of the manifold objects of 
this little book, to stimulate as much as 
possible individual thinking along the line of 
development in the way best fitted to apply 
to the needs of each and every human being 
to whom the book itself or the influence of 
it shall reach. 

In conclusion, let it be remembered that 



THE TWO WORLDS OF ATTRACTION 183 

we are all children of one common Father 
and that the nature of man is spiritual; that 
all men are brothers and that the attainment 
upon earth of that glorious ideal is the same 
as that held before us by the Master of men, 
who walking by the Sea of Galilee, said to 
his brethren, "Love one another, be ye 
kindly disposed one towards another," and 
also, "Ye are my sheep, the sheep of one 
pasture." 

Therefore it is well to remember as 
the Master said, that we are not divided 
but that we are of one pasture, and when we 
realize that God's pasture is our world 
wherever we may be at any moment of time 
in any and all forms of existence, then we 
know that the kingdom of heaven is truly 
within the heart of man. Whosoever 
turneth for light to the inner recesses of his 
own being, will not fail to find the God 
within, and he will walk in peace and in 
great joy all the rest of his days upon earth 
and throughout all worlds to come. 

This is the end, dear instrument, at least 
the end of this particular volume and I hope 
that I may again use your hand for trans- 
cription. When the opportunity comes you 
may be sure I will avail myself of it with 
eagerness and I trust that the second vol- 
ume may be only one of many. With many 
thanks and congratulations on the comple- 
tion of our task. 

A Friend of the Cause." 



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